NED
This is an XML Web Services interface to NED written by Tamas Budavari <budavari@jhu.edu>
It is a client to the official NED services at tcp://ned.ipac.caltech.edu:10011. It supports SOAP, HttpGet and HttpPost protocols and returns the results in XML format. The data structures are true translations of the C structs of the original client library by Xiuqin Wu (1993).
The following operations are supported. For a formal definition, please review the Service Description.
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ObjByName
Resolves an object name to J2000 coordinates (ra,dec) and a lot more
Input: Object name (string), e.g. m100
Output: All the relevant information (ObjInfo) -
ObjNearName
Finds all objects in NED around a specified object
Input 1: Object name (string), e.g. m100
Input 2: Radius in degrees (double), e.g. 0.4
Output: All the relevant information (ObjInfo array) -
ObjNearPosn
Finds all objects in NED around specified position
Input 1: RA in degrees (double)
Input 2: Dec in degrees (double)
Input 3: Radius in degrees (double)
Output: All the relevant information (ObjInfo array) -
Revisions
Returns current revision numbers of components