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No catalog 'Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) 1' found

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Hi,

So, I’m using Astropy 1.2.1, and I’m getting this error when trying to do a conesearch using 2MASS. I found out that 2MASS is actually not in the list of catalogs (i.e., if I do:

from astropy.vo.client import conesearch
conesearch.list_catalogs()

2MASS is not on the list). Checking the VO daily checks (http://stsdas.stsci.edu/astrolib/vo_databases/) it appears 2MASS is not on the conesearch_good.json list for some reason, which should be the problem…

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nespinozacommented, Dec 5, 2016

@bsipocz: great idea. I actually changed that part of my code to work now with IRSA directly for querying 2MASS and works like a charm. Thanks for the suggestion!

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bsipoczcommented, Dec 5, 2016

@nespinoza - Have you considered using astroquery for querying 2MASS? You can do it with a few different modules actually, I would suggest trying irsa first (http://astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/irsa/irsa.html). There are a few examples on the docs page about it.

Other modules that has access to 2mass includes: ibe, vizier, skyview, and possibly others.

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