SDSS DR17 radial search API

[pllim]

How do I use astroquery.sdss to access http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr17/SearchTools/radial programmatically? Thanks!

cc @camipacifici @javerbukh

[bsipocz]

The usual astroquery API for query_region() does that.

It's not the exact same SQL but close enough (and if anyone wants to fix to send the radius up to the SQL server rather than hand calculate a box, PRs are welcome, see #1088 with suggestion for the fix, and discussion in #585 and possibly some other issues, too).

If the exact match is important, then I would suggest directly using query_sql.

[bsipocz]

Oh, and we know that the documentation for the sdss module is somewhat lacking, PRs to extend it are more than welcome (and there are gazillion examples and coverage for different queries in the tests, those can be used as templates).

[pllim]

Belated cc to @svolfman

[pllim]

Ah, so one needs to set this first before using DR17?

astroquery/astroquery/sdss/__init__.py

Line 22 in 05f65ea

default_release = _config.ConfigItem(14, 'Default SDSS data release.')

[bsipocz]

They can, but there is a data_release kwarg, too that should do the deed.

[pllim]

Thanks for the quick response!