Create a loader for SSA
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Description
The Simple Spectral Access Protocol provides a way of accessing spectra from different services in a common way. Being able to load spectra in specutils over SSA would be nice feature. Would such a feature be accepted (this presumably would require a dependency on pyvo)?
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the Simple Spectral Access Protocol specification linked in the issue and the existing specutils loader patterns. Determine how a possible pyvo dependency would provide SSA access and what loader behavior and tests would be needed; the issue does not name specific files or tests, so completion criteria require maintainer clarification.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100