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I'm looking for an open REST API to make ocasional queries of stars and constellations. Concretly I'm looking for getting the right ascension and declination of the most important stars of a few constellations (other parameters are optional).

Patrick Hoefler
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marbri91
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    Have you come across http://star-api.herokuapp.com/ which is open source at https://github.com/HacktheUniverse/star-api ? The data appears to be from http://www.amnh.org/ – Mark Silverberg Oct 08 '15 at 12:25

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For simple, there is a webservice called LookUP which provides a web, REST and XML api for star and constellation data by name.

If that doesn't quite meet your need, there's SIMBAD Astronomical Database, which is where the above-noted LookUP tool is getting its data.

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