Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog with Python pandas, astropy, feather-format, and dask
Channel: Kepler/K2 GO Office
Date: 2018-01-27

The Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog (EPIC) contains information about targets towards all of the K2 campaign fields.  The catalogs are available on MAST:
https://archive.stsci.edu/pub/k2/catalogs/
In this screencast we programmatically read in the 6 chunks of the catalog into an in-memory pandas dataframe.  We then save the file to the feather format.  We also demonstrate distributed operations on the catalog with dask.