Re: asttable --information hangs

[Hilderic Browne]

Hi Mohammad,

First, thanks for such a quick reply!

In answer to the question from your first email, I don't know if the 
file in this form is available on the web.  It came from a CD-ROM 
entitled "Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Vol. 1" available in the early 
2000s from NASA.  the table is question isn't too huge after gzipping, 
so I've taken the liberty of attaching it.  It does read, search, and 
display correctly using the "fv" FITS viewer and with the python PyFITS 
module.

Your test case works fine.  Further, I checked some other FITS tables 
from a different source, specifically byproducts of astrometry.net, and 
they don't cause the problem either.

So the problem seems to be specific to catalogs from the above CD-ROM. 
It occurs to me that all the ones I've tried have something in common: 
they contain multiple ASCII (not binary) HDUs.  But I don't know if this 
is a useful clue or not...

Hilderic Browne
Rimouski QC


On 2022-07-06 13:58, Mohammad Akhlaghi wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Since you mentioned that it happens on any FITS table, to help 
> narrow-down the cause, can you please run the following commands:
>
> 1. Put the following contents into a plain-txt file called 'table.txt' 
> (following the Gnuastro plain-text table format: 
> https://www.gnu.org/software//gnuastro/manual/html_node/Gnuastro-text-table-format.html 
> )
>
> # Column 1: A [m, u16] First test column
> # Column 2: B [m, f32] Second test column
> # Column 3: C [m, f32] Third test column
> 1    2.3    3.7
> 2    2.4    3.8
> 3    2.5    3.9
> 4    2.6    3.0
>
> 2. Convert this basic plain-text table into a FITS table with the 
> following command:
>
> asttable table.txt --output=table.fits
>
> 3. Try getting the column information from both the formats ('-i' is the 
> short format for '--information'):
>
> asttable table.txt  -i
> asttable table.fits -i
>
> Does the problem also happen in the last command above?
>
> Cheers,
> Mohammad

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