Miriade

Release Notes

Solar System Object Ephemeris Generator

2024
2024-11-16 Modification of HTTP codes returned in certain cases: 400 (Bad Request) instead of 422 (Unprocessable Content) when the value of required parameters (e.g. name) is missing.
2023
2023-11-21 Minor issue fixed in getAvailability method.
2023-09-01 Fixed missing parameters for PSV method call.
2023-06-27 Added new argument pop to to allow user defined physical parameters.
2022
2022-09-02 Minor issues fixed.
2022-06-22 Added JSON format to load physical models.
2022-05-23 Added PDF output for PSV method.
2021
2021-11-22
  • Miriade software now based on Eproc-4.3 library.
  • Added the ephemeris of 170 planetary satellites, mainly the small and distant satellites of Jupiter and Saturn.
2019
2019-09-30
  • Added the geo URI as possible format to provide the geographic coordinates of an observer (mantis 183).
  • Correction of the field elements of the VOTable of physical ephemerides of the Sun (mantis 198).
2019-06-01
  • Change of the sign of the longitude in the argument observer of the Miriade methods to conform to the cartographic usage. The longitude must be defined positive towards East.
  • Minor improvements and bugs fix.
2018
2018-12-20 Release candidate: Miriade 3.0.
  • All the methods rely on Eproc-4.2 library
  • The reference frame of ephemerides is the ICRF
  • Computation of frame bias, precession and nutation matrices, Earth rotation angle, sidereal time, and coordinates of a terrestrial observing station based on SOFA routines (release 14)
  • New API's structure: miriade/api/<method>.php
  • New Web site, new documentation
  • Bugs fixed, improved methods, and many other stuff.
2018-03-19 Added new method ephemsys to compute ephemerides of satellites of asteroidal systems.
2018-03-02 Method ephemcc: Added the choice of the source of osculating elements for asteroids, through the new (optional) parameter of the Web service oscelem. The available sources are the ASTORB database from the Lowell observatory, and the MPCORB and NEAs databases from the Minor Planet Center. Default value is ASTORB.
2018-03-01 New release of Miriade.ViSiON:
  • Change the prefix 's' to 'u' to point out the Simbad objects
  • Add how to define the criteria and sort arguments in the query form
  • Improvement of the documentation
  • Minor bugs fixed
2017
2017-09-01 The method ephemph is deprecated and it is replaced by the method psv
2017-07-09
  • Display of the coordinates of asteroid satellites for heliocentric and barycentric ephemerides (observer=@0|@sun)
  • Display of the planetocentric vector position of asteroid satellites for rectangular coordinates (tcoor=2)
2017-07-01 Redesign of the physical ephemeris computation (Miriade.ephemph):
  • New rendering generator of planetary scenes (PSV),
  • New dedicated HTTP interface for discovering physical models of bodies,
  • Use of the DAMIT database as a source of asteroid shape and spin models.
2017-02-19
  • The Julian date is now displayed in the output of the calculation of the ephemerides for epochs prior to 10/15/1582.
  • Fixed bug preventing the calculation of the apparent of the date ephemerides in the ecliptic coordinate system.
2017-02-13 Added VOSI interfaces capabilities and availability for Miriade Web service.
2017-02-10
  • Implementation of a dedicated HTTP interface to get the spin elements of asteroids (GET method of Miriade.ephemph)
  • Integration of the HTTP status-code in all the responses of the Miriade Webservice
  • Introduction of argument tscale into Miriade.ephemph
  • Minor bugs fixed in Miriade.ephemph
2017-01-21
  • Added JSON format output of the positional ephemerides (Miriade.ephemcc)
  • Integration of the HTTP status-code in the response of the Miriade.ephemcc Webservice
2016
2016-11-12 Added ephemeris computation from the libration point L2 of the systems Sun-Venus, Sun-(Earth+Moon), Sun-Mars, Sun-Jupiter and Sun-Saturn.
2016-10-15 Update of the output to VOTable version 1.3.
2016-09-30 Added of the computation of magnitude of asteroids for various filters (e.g. U B V R I Z Y J H Ks u g r i z).
2016-09-27 Added of ephemeris computation from JUNO spacecraft (NAIF code -61).
2016-07-01 Extension of ViSiON to celestial objects resolved by the Simbad astronomical database (CDS), and to any point on the celestial sphere defined by its equatorial coordinates (RA,DEC).
2016-05-21 Added parameter step in rts method.
2016-05-20 Added the coordinates in the output of the physical ephemerides.
2016-03-26 Bug fixes concerning the display of images and tables of physical ephemerides.
2015
2015-11-26 Added the argument 'sort' for vision method, which can be use to define the column used to sort entries.
2015-11-17
  • Added ephemeris computation from CASSINI spacecraft (NAIF code -82)
  • Added ephemeris computation from VOYAGER 1 & 2 spacecrafts (NAIF code -31 and -32)
  • Added ephemeris computation from KEPLER spacecraft (NAIF code -227)
2015-10-31 Bug fix of date display (seconds=60).
2015-07-01 Implementation of a dedicated HTTP interface to get the list of orbital solutions available for the computation of the ephemerides of the satellites of binary asteroids, and to get the orbital parameters used to compute the ephemerides of a given asteroid or comet (GET method of Miriade.ephemcc).
2015-06-21 New form to generate ephemerides compatible with the VLT file format (PAF), to be used for the ESO Phase 2 procedures for Moving Target programmes.
2014
2014-04-21 Correction and standardisation of the output of the physical ephemerides.
2014-03-29 Added the computation of the thermal flux of asteroids (NEATM).
2014-03-01 Added the CSV (comma-separated value) output format to the ephemeris (ephemcc).
2013
2013-09-29
  • Added the facility to enter a comma separated list of Sso into the ephemeris computation form
  • Added the type of coordinates dedicated to observation into the ephemeris computation form
2013-09-05 Improvement of the query form, and bugs fix.
2013-06-15 Added a Web form to request the ViSiON service, to plot visibility charts of solar system objects to prepare observing nights.
2013-06-01 Commissioning of two new servers dedicated to the VO Web services.
2013-01-06 Added the facility to submit a file of epochs to compute the physical ephemerides of solar system objects in a single request. As a consequence, the type of the epoch parameter of the method ephemph has changed from float to string.
2012
2012-12-27 Simplification of the VOTABLE when an error occurs
2012-11-17
  • Added new 'curl' client, update of the documentation
  • Added the facility to submit a file of targets and a file of epochs to compute the position ephemerides of multiple solar system objects in a single request. As a consequence, the type of the epoch parameter of the method ephemcc has changed from float to string
  • Bug fix to correctly use degrees for the observer longitude (parameter observer)
2012-08-04 Correction of the RTS service to correctly take into account the time zone setting (tz argument).
2012-06-23 Update of the Web form and documentation.
2012-05-07 Improvement of the Web form.
2012-04-21 Update of the Web form, implementation of a new GUI for ViSiON.
2012-04-01 Implementation of ViSiON service.
2011
2011-12-27 Correction of the UCD of the fields Mv (becomes phot.mag;em.opt.V), dRA (becomes pos.pm;pos.eq.ra) and dDEC (becomes pos.pm;pos.eq.dec).
2011-11-11 Update of the documentation.
2011-11-01 Correction of the bug which disallowed the geographic coordinates of observers (observer argument).
2011-03-25 Added ephemeris computation from spacecrafts ISO, HST (-48), SIRTF (-79) and Rosetta (-226).
2010
2010 New developments and improvements of Miriade service.
2009
2009-01-17 First release of Miriade Web service.