[AstroPy] Request for Spectra files (in FITS format)

[Derek Homeier]

Hi Shailesh,

> I am working on the Google summer of code project for reading/writing spectra. To successfully cover all use cases, I need your help to provide me Spectra files in FITS format. At this stage we are most interested files that contain 1-dimensional extracted spectra (either long slit, multi-object or echelle) from optical or infrared spectrographs. But feel free to send any spectra that you would like to able to read easily with Astropy.
> 
thanks for your work on this! Is this intended to become part of the specutils package,
or going directly into Astropy “core”?
I assume you’d be considering model spectra as well; I have one specific case however
in the high-resolution spectra here
http://phoenix.astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de/?page_id=10
which require the wavelengths to be read from a separate file (I suppose to deal with such
a case would require a new keyword for the FITS reader).

Cheers,
						Derek