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Resource Record Summary

Catalog Service:
VO Solar System Object Ephemeris Generator

Short name: Miriade
IVOA Identifier: ivo://vopdc.obspm/imcce/miriadePublisher: Paris Astronomical Data Centre - IMCCEivo://vopdc.obspm/imcce[Pub. ID]
More Info: http://vo.imcce.fr/webservices/miriade
VO Compliance: Level 3: This is a well-described and VO-compliant resource.Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Status: active
Registered: 2009 Jun 26 00:00:00Z
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Description


The Miriade project aims to provide a VO-compliant suite of services to compute positional and physical ephemerides of known solar system bodies as seen from any location on Earth as well as various location in space (HST, SPITZER, Gaia, etc.)

More About this Resource

About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: Paris Astronomical Data Centre - IMCCEivo://vopdc.obspm/imcce[Pub. ID]

Creator: J. Berthier Contributor: F. Vachier, PADC

Contact Information:
X J. Berthier / F. Vachier
Email: ov at imcce.fr
Address: Observatoire de Paris IMCCE
77 av. Denfert Rochereau
75014 Paris
FRANCE

Status of This Resource

This section provides some status information: the resource version, availability, and relevant dates.

Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.
  • This service apparently provides only public data

This resource was registered on: 2009 Jun 26 00:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2017 Feb 03 00:00:00Z

What This Resource is About

This section describes what the resource is, what it contains, and how it might be relevant.

Resource Class: CatalogService
This resource is a service that provides access to catalog data. You can extract data from the catalog by issuing a query, and the matching data is returned as a table.
Resource type keywords:
  • Other
Subject keywords:
  • Virtual Observatory
  • Solar System
  • Ephemerides
  • Planetary Systems
  • Asteroids
  • Comets
Intended audience or use:
  • General: This resource provides information appropriate for all users.
  • University: This resource provides information appropriate for use in university education.
  • Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
  • Amateur: This resource provides information of interest to amateur astronomers.
More Info: http://vo.imcce.fr/webservices/miriade

Related Resources:

Other Related Resources
Paris Astronomical Data Centre ivo://vopdc.obspm [Res. ID]

Data Coverage Information

This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time.

Reference Coordinate System: UTC-ICRS-TOPOXXivo://STClib/CoordSys#UTC-ICRS-TOPO[Res. ID]

Sky Coverage: Regions covered:

  • All-sky: The data from this resource is distributed over the entire sky.

Wavebands covered:

  • Optical

Temporal Coverage:

  • UTC - UTC

Available Service Interfaces

Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for this service interface:
Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for this service interface:
  • URL-based interface: http://vo.imcce.fr/webservices/miriade/ephemcc_query.php?-mime=votable
    • This interface supports the following arguments:
      -name [required]
      Name or designation of the (Sso) target
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.id;meta.main
      -type [optional]
      Type of the target
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): src.class
      -ep [required]
      Requested epoch expressed in Julian day or formatted as any English textual datetime
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): time.epoch
      -nbd [optional]
      Number of date of ephemeris to compute
      Value Type: integer
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.number
      -step [optional]
      Step of increment (decimal number) followed by one of (d)ays or (h)ours or (m)inutes or (s)econds
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): time.interval
      -tscale [optional]
      Ephemeris time scale
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): time.scale
      -observer [optional]
      Code of the observer location
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code;obs.observer
      -theory [optional]
      Planetary theory to use for the calculation
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code.status
      -teph [optional]
      Type of ephemeris: 1:astrometric J2000, 2:apparent of the date, 3: mean of the date, 4: mean J2000
      Value Type: integer
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code.status
      -tcoor [optional]
      Type of coordinates: 1:spherical, 2:rectangular
      Value Type: integer
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code.status
      -rplane [optional]
      Reference plane: 1:equator, 2: ecliptic
      Value Type: integer
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code.status
      -output [optional]
      Comma separated list of options to format the output
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.table
      -from [required]
      Word which definite the name of the caller application, or which describes the request
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.id
Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for this service interface:
  • URL-based interface: http://vo.imcce.fr/webservices/miriade/ephemph_query.php?-mime=votable
    • This interface supports the following arguments:
      -name [required]
      Name or designation of the (Sso) target
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.id;meta.main
      -type [optional]
      Type of the target
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): src.class
      -ep [required]
      Requested epoch expressed in Julian day or formatted as any English textual datetime
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): time.epoch
      -nbd [optional]
      Number of date of ephemeris to compute
      Value Type: integer
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.number
      -step [optional]
      Step of increment (decimal number) followed by one of (d)ays or (h)ours or (m)inutes or (s)econds
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): time.interval
      -so [optional]
      Spin axis solution number
      Value Type: integer
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code.status
      -observer [optional]
      Code of the observer location
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code;obs.observer
      -view [optional]
      Output format of the generated image: fits | png | ps | none
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code.status
      -teph [optional]
      Type of ephemeris: 1:astrometric J2000, 2:apparent of the date, 3: mean of the date, 4: mean J2000
      Value Type: integer
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code.status
      -rv [optional]
      Compute radial velocity or not (1 or 0)
      Value Type: integer
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code.status
      -anim [optional]
      Mode animate: draw an image for each date, else draw an image only for the first date (1 or 0)
      Value Type: integer
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code.status
      -print [optional]
      Display ephemeris date results or not (1 or 0)
      Value Type: integer
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code.status
      -visu [optional]
      Comma separated list of options to pass to the image generator
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.code.status
      -from [required]
      Word which definite the name of the caller application, or which describes the request
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.id
Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for this service interface:
  • URL-based interface: http://vo.imcce.fr/webservices/miriade/rts_query.php?-mime=votable
    • This interface supports the following arguments:
      -ep [required]
      Requested epoch expressed in Julian day or formatted as any English textual datetime
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): time.epoch
      -body [required]
      The number (or a comma separated list of numbers) of the requested solar system body
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.id
      -nbd [optional]
      Number of dates of ephemeris to compute
      Value Type: integer
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.number
      -long [required]
      Longitude of the observer location, negative toward east, in decimal degrees
      Value Type: real
      Unit: degree
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): pos.earth.lon
      -lat [required]
      Latitude of the observer location, negative toward south, in decimal degrees
      Value Type: real
      Unit: degree
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): pos.earth.lat
      -from [required]
      Word which definite the name of the caller application, or which describes the request
      Value Type: string
      Unit:
      Unified Content Descriptor (UCD): meta.id
Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for this service interface:
  • SOAP-based Web Service: http://vo.imcce.fr/webservices/miriade/miriade.phpX (WSDL)


Developed with the support of the National Science Foundation
under Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 with the Johns Hopkins University
The NAVO project is a member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance

This NAVO Application is hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute

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