Hello, I’m experiencing an issue lately with the NED queries.I used to be able to fetch table data using whichever name an object is known by, but now I have to input the name preferred by NED. Example:
from astroquery.ipac.ned import Ned
object_name = "NGC-3351"
Ned.get_table(object_name, table='positions')
yields
ERROR: Name checking server EGRET error.
however if I define instead
object_name = "MESSIER 095"
there is no issue.
I’m using this lib in a pipeline and manually checking each of my current or future targets kind of defeats the purpose of using this. Was there any change to NED or was it to the library?