Information on Service 'Constellations as Polygons'

Further access options are discussed below

This cone search will return all constellations within the cone, together with the J2000 polygons of them.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this service's resource, see Information on resource 'Constellations as Polygons'

Overview

You can access this service using:

form -- an interface for web browsers through an HTML form
scs.xml -- a standard SCS interface as defined by the IVOA to access catalog-type data; SCS clients use https://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/cstl/q/cone/scs.xml? to access the service

Coverage

This service is published as follows:

Within the set(s) ivo_managed with the renderer dali
Within the set(s) local,ivo_managed with the renderer form
Within the set(s) ivo_managed with the renderer scs.xml

local means it is listed on our front page, ivo_managed means it has a record in the VO registry.

Input Fields

The following fields are available to provide input to the service (with some renderers, some of these fields may be unavailable):

Name	Table Head	Description	Unit	UCD
DEC	Delta (ICRS)	Declination (ICRS decimal)	deg	pos.eq.dec
hscs_pos	Position/Name	Coordinates (as h m s, d m s or decimal degrees), or SIMBAD-resolvable object	N/A	N/A
hscs_sr	Search radius	Search radius in arcminutes	N/A	N/A
maxrec	Match limit	Maximum number of records returned. Pass 0 to retrieve service parameters.	N/A	N/A
RA	Alpha (ICRS)	Right Ascension (ICRS decimal)	deg	pos.eq.ra
responseformat	Output Format	File format requested for output.	N/A	meta.code.mime
SR	Search Radius	Search radius	deg	N/A
verb	Verbosity	Exhaustiveness of column selection. VERB=1 only returns the most important columns, VERB=2 selects the columns deemed useful to the average user, VERB=3 returns a table with all available columns.	N/A	N/A

Default Output Fields

The following fields are contained in the output by default. More fields may be available for selection; these would be given below in the VOTable output fields.

Name	Table Head	Description	Unit	UCD
abbrev	Abbrev	Abbreviation of the constellation name	N/A	meta.id;meta.main
dec	Dec	Representative Dec (actually, the mean of the vertices)	deg	pos.eq.dec;meta.main
name	Name	Full name of the constellation name	N/A	meta.id
p	Polygon	The coverage of the constellation as an ADQL polygon	N/A	pos
ra	RA	Representative RA (actually, the mean of the vertices)	deg	pos.eq.ra;meta.main

VOTable Output Fields

The following fields are available in VOTable output. The verbosity level is a number intended to represent the relative importance of the field on a scale of 1 to 30. The services take a VERB argument. A field is included in the output if their verbosity level is less or equal VERB*10.

Name	Table Head	Description	Unit	UCD	Verb. Level
abbrev	Abbrev	Abbreviation of the constellation name	N/A	meta.id;meta.main	1
name	Name	Full name of the constellation name	N/A	meta.id	1
p	Polygon	The coverage of the constellation as an ADQL polygon	N/A	pos	1
ra	RA	Representative RA (actually, the mean of the vertices)	deg	pos.eq.ra;meta.main	1
dec	Dec	Representative Dec (actually, the mean of the vertices)	deg	pos.eq.dec;meta.main	1

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