sunpy/sunpy — pull request #816 by aringlis (2014-02-10 22:21:55+00:00)
Title: First attempt at adding support for Nobeyama Radioheliograph lightcurves

This PR adds Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH) data as a new lightcurve source.

- Currently supports NoRH tcx data only (this is their 'quicklook' correlation data, a proxy for the actual radio flux). Files come from NoRH's anonymous FTP server.
- Select 17GHz or 34 GHz (default is 17)
- included some tests

Limitations:
- haven't been able to implement it such that both 17 and 34 GHz data are returned in the same lightcurve. The problem is that these data are in separate files.
- only supports retrieval by date (or existing file) at the moment.

It's my first attempt to add a lightcurve source, so all comments appreciated - thanks!