@fred3m - could you link to the WIP branch?

https://github.com/fred3m/astroquery/tree/astrometry_net

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I have talked to the Astropy developers and it seems that automatically writing the API in the configuration file would not be a good idea. There are several reasons for this — the most convincing of them probably being that this could be very confusing for users, who may found that another library has modified their configuration file by calling our code.

Would using getpass be an option? The Astronometry.net API key does not have an associated username, so maybe we could use something like astrometry-net-user as a placeholder.

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Ok, I think this should be good to go. Try testing it and let me know if it works. The only thing that will need to be changed is that they use a print function in a way I've never seen to build their data packet, and it won't be compatible with Python 3 (I had to comment out the future import).

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Does this code still work? Is there any remaining issues that prevent it from being merged?

Actually, it probably can be merged... it would be nice to have some remote tests in place so we can be sure, but really I just lost track of it.

Sorry, I let this slip through the cracks too. I haven't taken a look at this in a while so it may take me a few days to make the changes.

@fred3m @crawfordsm Just a ping reminding you that this is open and nearly done

Thanks for the reminder. I've been neck deep in job applications and my thesis lately but one weekend when I need a break I'll try and pound this out. Sorry that this is taking so long...

Thanks Fred and good luck with everything!

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