SIMBAD Astronomical Objects Scraper
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SIMBAD Astronomical Objects Scraper
Pull stars, galaxies, quasars, and nebulae from the SIMBAD database by object type, identifier, or custom ADQL query. Returns main identifier, RA and Dec, object type, spectral type, magnitudes, parallax, radial velocity, and cross identifiers. Good for observing plans and catalog work.
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🔭 SIMBAD Astronomical Objects Scraper
🚀 Export astronomical objects in seconds. Pull stars, galaxies, quasars, clusters, and nebulae from the SIMBAD database with coordinates, object type, magnitudes, parallax, radial velocity, and dozens of cross identifiers per object.
SIMBAD (Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data), maintained by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), is the reference database for objects beyond the Solar System. This Actor queries the official SIMBAD TAP service using ADQL and returns clean, structured records ready for analysis.
Coverage: stars, double and multiple stars, variable stars, white dwarfs, galaxies, quasars, active galactic nuclei, galaxy clusters, star clusters, globular clusters, planetary nebulae, supernova remnants, HII regions, and more. Each record carries equatorial coordinates in degrees, the object type, spectral and morphological types when known, optical and infrared magnitudes (U, B, V, R, G, J, H, K), parallax, radial velocity, redshift, proper motion, and the full list of cross identifiers (HD, HIP, Gaia, 2MASS, TYC, NGC, and many catalog designations).
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Astronomers and astrophysicists | Building target lists and observing plans |
| Data scientists and researchers | Cross matching catalogs by identifier |
| Educators and students | Teaching datasets and class projects |
| Planetarium and outreach teams | Populating sky atlases and visualizations |
| Amateur astronomers | Finding objects by type, position, or brightness |
📋 What the SIMBAD Astronomical Objects Scraper does
This Actor talks to the SIMBAD TAP sync endpoint and runs an ADQL query against the basic table joined with the allfluxes table. You can supply your own ADQL query for full control, or use the built in filters to select by object type, by text contained in the main identifier, and to require a measured V magnitude. For every returned object the Actor also fetches the complete list of cross identifiers from the ident table, so you get every catalog name an object is known by.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: crossIds, dec, magV, mainId, morphType, objectType, objectTypeText, parallax, ra, radialVelocity, results, scrapedAt, simbadUrl, spectralType. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- Sign up for a free Apify account using this link.
- Open the SIMBAD Astronomical Objects Scraper.
- Choose an object type or paste your own ADQL query, and set how many objects you want.
- Click Start and watch records arrive in your dataset.
- View the results in the table or pull them through the Apify API for your pipeline.
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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with SIMBAD or CDS Strasbourg. Only publicly available data collected.
🆘 Need Help?
If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.
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