🔎Search Result Properties

Search result items follows a common object schema. This page describes the different fields and what to expect as the values.

The following properties are returned in the search results objects returned from the API.

Section	Subsection	Data Type	Description
id	-	string	Unique identifier for the object.
name	-	string	Commonly used name for the object. If a name is not found defaults to the closest possible catalog id.
type	-	object	The type object.
-	id	string	The type of the object as a unique id.
-	name	string	The name of the type.
subType	-		Sub type object
-	id	string	The sub type of the object as a unique id. For stars this will return the spectral class while for DSO objects returns the sub type based on the type of the object.
-	name	string	The description or name of the sub type
crossIdentification	-	array	Returns any duplicated references in all catalogs. The array of objects consists of the name and the catalogId of the referring catalog.
position	-	object	Position object. Note that the object contains only the equatorial coordinates object and the constellation object.
-	equatorial	object	Position object in equatorial coordinates. Object will return the values in Right Ascension and Declination (RA/Dec) format. Numerical and literal values are returned.
-	constellation	object	The id, short code and the name of the constellation where the object can be seen in.

Sample response object

{
    "meta": {
        "limit": 10,
        "offset": 0
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "id": "3ecb894e-99c0-5b4b-9fcf-6d4441fe351d",
            "name": "M 1",
            "type": {
                "id": "SNR",
                "name": "Super Nova Remnant"
            },
            "subType": {
                "id": "SNR",
                "name": "Super Nova Remnant"
            },
            "crossIdentification": [
                {
                    "name": "NGC 1952",
                    "catalogId": "NGC"
                },
                {
                    "name": "LBN 833",
                    "catalogId": "LBN"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Crab Nebula",
                    "catalogId": null
                },
                {
                    "name": "Taurus A",
                    "catalogId": null
                },
                {
                    "name": "M 1",
                    "catalogId": "M"
                }
            ],
            "position": {
                "equatorial": {
                    "rightAscension": {
                        "hours": "5.58",
                        "string": "05h 34m 48s"
                    },
                    "declination": {
                        "degrees": "22.01",
                        "string": "22° 0' 36\""
                    }
                },
                "constellation": {
                    "id": "tau",
                    "short": "Tau",
                    "name": "Taurus"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}