On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 22:43:48 EST, wrote:
I would like to do some viewing of the sky using an online viewer.
I have tried simbad ...

For quasars, you'd probably be better to query a quasar catalog, and
SIMBAD and NED don't keep up very well with the latest discoveries.
You can query the "half million quasars" catalog at
http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bi...source=VII/273