Issues

• Create pngs and static summary files by default

  enhancementgood first issue
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#744 · Filter by author delucchi-cmu opened on Oct 30, 2026

• Speed up split-stage shard writes (use_dictionary=False)

  performance
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#740 · Filter by author nevencaplar opened on Oct 21, 2026
  3

• Use exact string sizes in mem_size partitioning

  astronomy-commons/hats-import#739 · Filter by author olivialynn opened on Oct 20, 2026

• Don't write pandas metadata to index catalog files

  bug
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#730 · Filter by author hombit opened on Sep 30, 2026

• Legacy Survey North as an extension

  data-federationdatasetmodalities-support
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#723 · Filter by author camposandro opened on Sep 3, 2026
  1

  

• Generate catalog provenance

  data-federation
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#722 · Filter by author camposandro opened on Sep 3, 2026

• Create catalog checksums

  data-federation
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#721 · Filter by author camposandro opened on Sep 3, 2026
  

• Import VHS (Vista Hemisphere Survey)

  astronomy-commons/hats-import#717 · Filter by author camposandro opened on Aug 19, 2026
  1

• Refactor Arguments to exclude properties that don't apply

  astronomy-commons/hats-import#716 · Filter by author smcguire-cmu opened on Aug 10, 2026

• Make summary file generation more flexible

  enhancement
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#706 · Filter by author hombit opened on Jul 20, 2026
  

• Add pylint's pylint.extensions.docparams plugin

  astronomy-commons/hats-import#703 · Filter by author hombit opened on Jul 15, 2026

• Remove hipscat-conversion support

  enhancement
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#701 · Filter by author hombit opened on Jul 15, 2026

• Possible optimizations for margin generation pipeline

  enhancementperformance
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#688 · Filter by author hombit opened on May 27, 2026

• Change hats_cols_sort to always specify _healpix_29

  enhancement
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#644 · Filter by author hombit opened on Dec 5, 2025

• Make _np_to_pyarrow_array() public

  enhancement
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#623 · Filter by author hombit opened on Nov 12, 2025
  4

  

• indexed fits reader and angle unit conversion for LSST refcat style catalogs

  enhancement
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#606 · Filter by author psferguson opened on Oct 15, 2025
  3

• Want better error on edge cases like sorting into a single partition

  enhancement
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#568 · Filter by author gitosaurus opened on Jul 2, 2025
  2

• Retry failed stages

  enhancement
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#559 · Filter by author delucchi-cmu opened on Jun 6, 2025

• Implement fits reader using fitsio

  enhancement
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#552 · Filter by author hombit opened on May 29, 2025

• source-object-nesting pipeline

  blocked
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#529 · Filter by author delucchi-cmu opened on May 5, 2025
  2

  

• Explore using ray to run DASH with fewer tasks

  datasetperformance
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#511 · Filter by author smcguire-cmu opened on Apr 8, 2025

• Import ZTF reference catalog

  dataset
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#494 · Filter by author hombit opened on Feb 18, 2025

• Feature Request: incremental changes to catalog

  enhancement
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#469 · Filter by author dlmcelroy opened on Jan 7, 2025
  1

  

• Add basic metadata validation run after import

  enhancement
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#419 · Filter by author hombit opened on Oct 23, 2024

• Reduce number of positional arguments

  interface
  astronomy-commons/hats-import#404 · Filter by author camposandro opened on Oct 14, 2024