diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b198b71b2..0e1236c53 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
         'astroquery>=0.4',
         'bokeh',
         'pandas',
-        'photutils>=1.0.0',
+        'photutils<1.2.0',
         'lxml',
         'PyPDF2',
         'scikit-image',