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Obtain the spectral energy distribution from a NED query

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Description

Hello,

is there a way, by using the NED query, to directly obtain the spectral energy distribution (SED) of a source?
I am referring to the table provided in the "Photometry and SED" section of any NED web query.
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It does not look possible, as I don't see any related function in the [`NedClass`' API](https://astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/astroquery.ipac.ned.NedClass.html).
This feature would be incredibly useful as it would automatise a repetitive and manual task (downloading the tables manually).
It would also help since the SED table that you manually download from NED it's a bit messy (it includes for example empty fields that are then difficult to parse from python - they result in in rows with different lengths).

Another question is: in case of this type of questions that are not real issues, is there another way to communicate / ask for support (e.g. a slack with a #help channel, GitHub discussions and so on...), without opening an issue?

Thank you!

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the NedClass API and the NED web-query “Photometry and SED” table described in the issue, then determine how the service exposes that data. The work is complete when an astroquery interface retrieves the SED in a consistently parseable table format and has coverage for the returned data.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
api, data
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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