Can I deprecate astroquery.vo_conesearch ?

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Pey Lian Lim

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Feb 18, 2026, 6:35:51 PM (6 days ago) Feb 18
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Is anyone still using it?

Please see https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/issues/2027

Thank you!

Jeff Jennings

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Feb 19, 2026, 11:52:52 AM (6 days ago) Feb 19
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There's a tutorial on astropy learn.astropy.org built around vo_conesearch; could that be updated to use pyvo before vo_conesearch is removed?

Thanks!

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Brigitta Sipőcz

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Feb 19, 2026, 12:45:54 PM (6 days ago) Feb 19
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Does that tutorial even work? It hasn't had a passing cron since October. I don't think we should consider unmaintained tutorials as blockers for library maintenance work (rewriting that tutorial to use pyvo is, I sense, way more work than either of us can dedicate to this task, and I would recommend pointing to any of the other VO/IVOA adjacent tutorials instead (either NAVO, or GAVO, or I'm sure CDS has plenty of them, too).

Brigitta

Pey Lian Lim

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Feb 20, 2026, 8:40:23 AM (5 days ago) Feb 20
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Jeff, thanks for pointing that out! As Brigitta suggested, looks like there is a tutorial at https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/vo_scs.html . Should we retire our vo_conesearch tutorial and point to that instead? Please advise. Thanks, all!

Jeff Jennings

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Feb 20, 2026, 3:18:04 PM (5 days ago) Feb 20
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Thanks Pey Lian! That sounds good - I've archived the repo for this tutorial and pointed to the PyVO one.

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Jeff

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