Description

astroquery, an astropy affiliated package, is a package to place modules that access astronomical data that is online. The aim of this project will be to implement just such modules, for a variety of astronomical archives that are currently lacking astroquery modules. A full list of new services that have been suggested by our users can be found in these issues, and a summary in this issue.

A possible set of milestones for any particular one of these modules might be:

1. Research the web API for the archive sufficiently to determine what exactly astroquery should expose.
2. Determine the best interface to access the simplest subset of that archive that would be useful.
3. Create an astroquery module to actually implement that interface.
4. Add tests to ensure the module works correctly.
5. Generalize that architecture to extend to other data products from the archive - e.g. repeat 1-4 until all useful functionality in the module is complete.