astropy integration?
kadrlica opened this issue · comments
Investigate integration with astropy. Of specific interest is the astropy coordinate module; however, coordinate transforms are notoriously slow (astropy/astropy#1717)
At this point I think we want to stay away from astropy coordinates in catalogs (we have written an interface that abstracts away the choice of coordinate). astropy itself is beginning to permeate the code, and is now a solid dependency due to the replacement of pyfits with astropy.io.fits (#24).