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docs: add note about the column names fix
Co-authored-by: keflavich <[email protected]>
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@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ radius. Similar to the VizieR web interface, the queries may be further
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constrained by specifying a choice of catalogs, keywords as well as filters on
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individual columns before retrieving the results.
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.. note::
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In earlier versions of astroquery (<0.4.8), columns with special characters like
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``r'mag`` were renamed into ``r_mag`` and columns starting with a number like
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``2MASS`` were prepended with an underscore ``_2MASS``.
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In astroquery >=0.4.8, the column names are the same in VizieR's webpages and in
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the tables received (for the two examples: you'll see ``r'mag`` and ``2MASS``).
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Table Discover
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