Benjamin Alan Weaver

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This PR closes #585. `query_region()` now uses `query_crossid()` internally with slightly different parameters. Effectively, a circular/cone region around each coordinate is searched instead of a rectangle in previous versions. In...

sdss

Add a high-level document describing the use of the SDSS window function, and how it interacts with the Mangle package.

enhancement

The PypeIt project has made some bug fixes that need to be incorporated back into PyDL.

### Description When certain units cannot be parsed, a specific message is printed that can be misleading in certain cases. If a user follows the advice, the result is an...

io.fits
units
Bug

I had suggested this as a Coordination meeting topic on astropy/astropy-project#255. But maybe we can save time by simply asking the question: is APE 13 still considered the current guidance...

question

This PR closes #77. A preliminary reading of the original IDL code was not definitive on how the `groupbadpix` keyword is meant to be used in this example. Some operational...

Extra CI

This PR closes #83. Previously, APE 13 referred to `specviz` which is now part of a separate project. Suggestions for separate spectrum visualization projects to mention as examples (but not...

This is an enhancement suggestion, and a place to discuss the issues involved. Previously this idea was hand-written in a notebook, so not as accessible. The resolution matrix as defined...

enhancement
discussion

Is there a paper, Zenodo reference or other DOI to use when citing fitsio? I tried to find a citation file in the code, but I couldn't find anything obvious.

At the recent [ADASSx/Monsoon meeting](https://catalina.lpl.arizona.edu/monsoon2025), a comment was made that, in some cases, the terms on the [Terminology page](https://specreduce.readthedocs.io/en/latest/terms.html) require some expert-level knowledge to understand. This could be a barrier...