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Sesame

Sesame is an astronomical object name resolver provided by Virtual Observatory.

Command

munipack sesame [.. options ..] object

Description

Sesame utility resolves name of an object and returns ICRS coordinates (Right Ascension, Declination) of the object in degrees. The engine sends a HTTP query to some Virtual observatory server and getting the coordinates by parsing of the answer.

Web interface is provided by SIMBAD: basic query.

Examples

Use the command to get coordinates of β Perseii:

  $ munipack sesame "beta per"
    47.04221856 40.95564667

See Also

Virtual Observatory, sesame documentation.