• TITLE
• SYNOPSIS
• OPTIONS
• DETAILS
• AUTHOR
• COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

TITLE

csv - Download SIMBAD data in CSV format

SYNOPSIS

 csv Arcturus >arcturus.csv
 csv -help

OPTIONS

-help

This option displays documentation and then exits.

-parse

This option causes a display of the raw data in Data::Dumper format, rather than as CSV.

DETAILS

This script takes as its arguments the names of objects to be looked up in the SIMBAD database, and copies the obtained information to standard output as comma-separated values, one line per object. The individual fields are:

 object name
 right ascension (in decimal degrees)
 declination (in decimal degrees)
 distance
 proper motion in right ascension
 proper motion in declination
 velocity in recession

AUTHOR

Thomas R. Wyant, III wyant at cpan dot org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006, 2008, 2010-2019 by Thomas R. Wyant, III

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.0. For more details, see the full text of the licenses in the directory LICENSES.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

# ex: set textwidth=72 :

                    cpanm Astro::SIMBAD::Client

                    perl -MCPAN -e shell
                    install Astro::SIMBAD::Client