Telarchive -- Version 1.6.1 (29 May 2010)

Various minor bugfixes to telarchive, including missing regex in 
archive_analyze.findNReturned which was causing failed detections for 
ESO and HST-ESO archives.

--archive=<archive_name> now uses SIMBAD coordinate lookup (as is the
case for searching all archives); requesting that an individual archive to
its own coordinate lookup for a target name is no longer possible.

(Of interest only if you have worked on modifying telarchive code in the
past: The AnalyzeHTML() interface no longer takes a second,
"textSearches" argument, the textSearches data member of archive classes
no longer exists, and the MakeTextSearches() method of basic_archive.py
is gone as well.)



Telarchive -- Version 1.6.0 (10 April 2010)
and
Fetchsdss -- Version 1.0.2 (10 April 2010):

Telarchive now includes an archive for searching Spitzer obervations.

Bugfix of fetchsdss "--max" option (now works properly); minor bugfixe
in utils.py and input-checking in fetchsdss.



Telarchive -- Version 1.5.1 (6 May 2009)
and
Fetchsdss -- Version 1.0.1 (6 May 2009):

Minor changes to SIMBAD-querying code (getcoords.py) to account for changes
in how SIMBAD formats its HTML output, which were preventing us from correctly
reading object coordinates.



Telarchive -- Version 1.5 (12 April 2009)
and
Fetchsdss -- Version 1.0 (12 April 2009):

Both programs updated to work with SDSS DR7 (using new archive module
sdss_coords_archive.py).

Telarchive (archive_search.py) and fetchsdss now use optparse module to
handle command-line parsing, allowing more flexible command-line use
(options and arguments can now be interspersed).  This does require Python
2.3 or higher, but we're assuming almost no one is still using version 2.2
or earlier.

Extensive changes to fetchsdss.py, mainly to allow retrieval of DR7 data:
   -- We now retrieve individual images one-by-one, and downloaded filenames
   have both the run number and field number appended if the user
   supplies a root name (otherwise files have their full SDSS names).
   -- New retrieval options include *not* getting the tsField FITS
   tables, getting JPEGs in addition to or instead of FITS images, and
   specifying a maximum number of separate fields to retrieve (useful
   for cases where dozens of repeat observations exist, as in Stripe 82).
   Note that the default maximum is 1, so that coordinates with multiple
   observations are not automatically retrieved; the user has to specify
   a maximum number (this is to prevent suprise downloads of 60+ fields
   if the requested coordinates lie within a high-repeat area).
   -- Downloaded .tar.gz file bundles are no longer available

Various minor fixes and updates to eso_archive.py [more accurate
instrument counting, IFU and MOS categories added to output listing],
hst_eso_archive.py [more accurate instrument counting], mast_archive.py
[now includes XMM Optical Monitor searches], and smoka_archive.py [now
includes MITSuME robotic telescopes].

Acknowledgments: Thanks to Maximilian Fabricius for identifying a bug in the
SDSS searches!