Spitzer / WISE data query about astroquery

[keflavich]

@autocorr - Does this work for Spitzer data? Could you provide a brief example? If it works for Spitzer / WISE data specifically, I'll close this issue.

[autocorr]

@keflavich This only works with the SHA at the moment, but a similar scheme could be applied to the WISE queries. There are more options and query types for the WISE archive, but I was planning on making a second module for the WISE. The nice IPAC Simple Image Access Protocal basically means you just need to put the right keys into a HTTP get query and fiddle with the downloaded file object.

[astrofrog]

A WISE module would be great! @autocorr - you mention working on a WISE module, do you have anything that could be included at the moment?

[keflavich]

The incomplete API is linked from the FAQ and described here:
http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/ibe/docs/wise/allsky/4band_p1bm_frm/
http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/ibe/docs/wise/allsky/4band_p3am_cdd/

Basically, you need to start with a metadata query followed by downloading the data using URLs constructed from the metadata. This is actually quite similar to the eso module.

[keflavich]

This query shows the available metadata.

We need to implement spatial queries, which use a central position given by POS=ra,dec and SIZE=width[,height] (size is optional; if not given it just yields overlap).

...this would be a great opportunity to test writing a new module using the template module!