The collection of catalogs was enriched with 6 new and 3 modified catalogs. The full collection of catalogs is available from the Astronomer's Bazaar. Read more...

The CDS team is releasing today SimPlay (Simbad disPlay), a simple interactive viewer for Simbad data. For a given position on the sky, SimPlay will display Simbad data sorted by categories (stars, galaxies, ...), overlaid on a background DSS image. Basic data (position, object type, magnitudes) about objects are also displayed, as well as a link to the original Simbad data.

Though primarily targeted for outreach usage, SimPlay will also be of interest for more advanced users.

You might want to give it a try, read the documentation or look at the screenshots.

A School on the Virtual Observatory will be held in Strasbourg on June 2-4. The goal is to expose the French researcher community to advanced usage of the European Virtual Observatory tools and services so that they can use them efficiently for their own research.
More information on the school is available here:
http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/meetings/ecolevo2010/

The collection of catalogs was enriched with 19 new and 2 modified catalogs. The full collection of catalogs is available from the Astronomer's Bazaar. Read more...

An interruption of the Simbad service is scheduled this morning. The interruption should last less than one hour.

In the meantime, you are advised to use the Simbad mirror at CfA.

An interruption of the vizier service is scheduled for 15 march in the morning (between 08::00 and 12:00UT) for hardware maintenance.

Some catalogs will also be unavailable on mirrors (CfA however should be ok) Read more...

The collection of catalogs was enriched with 17 new and 1 modified catalogs. The full collection of catalogs is available from the Astronomer's Bazaar. Read more...

The CDS team is proud to open a new service, allowing you to add
annotations to SIMBAD objects.
SIMBAD pages showing informations for individual objects will
now contain a link at the bottom, allowing you to add informations,
remarks or request modifications from CDS staff for this object.
In order to use this feature, you will need to register as a
user of CDS services. Detailed instructions are available here :
http://cdsannotations.u-strasbg.fr/annotations/doc/quickstart.html.

Note that the registration will provide access to more new CDS
features in the future.

This new annotation system is in its starting phase, and might
need a little tuning in its early days. It is not intended to
supersede email support via question@simbad, but to improve the
quality of SIMBAD contents and the level of interaction between
CDS staff and SIMBAD users.

The collection of catalogs was enriched with 15 new catalogs. The full collection of catalogs is available from the Astronomer's Bazaar. Read more...

The collection of catalogs was enriched with 1 new catalogs. The full collection of catalogs is available from the Astronomer's Bazaar. Read more...