create_gaia_index_files - Empty FITS files

[Astrodude11]

Hi,

Executing create_gaia_index_files created FITS files but they don't have header information and are very small in size. For example, gaia-catalog-16-1689.fits is 5760 MB.

The associated log file contains this:

Reading gaia-catalog-16-1689.fits...
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fitstable.c:972:read_array_into: Failed to read column from FITS file
uniformize-catalog.c:126:uniformize_catalog: Failed to find RA column (ra) in table

[cmccully]

Hi @Astrodude11 . That's weird. I've never seen that. How big is the sqlite db file?

[Astrodude11]

Hi @cmccully . I tried on another computer and same result. The gaia.db file is 20K.

[cmccully]

So the db file is way too small. It will be many GB when you are done. Maybe remove it and try again?

[Astrodude11]

Fingers crossed...nope.

2021-02-24 14:04:22.931 INFO: index_file_creator: Getting sources in healpixel: 3071
2021-02-24 14:04:22.966 INFO: index_file_creator: Making index file. nside: 16, healpix: 0, scale: 6

Seems like it's trying to get sources and make the index file but the logs contain the same information as in my initial post.

Perhaps something wonky with the install? But then I wouldn't expect create_gaia_index_files to run. And I'm able to import astrometry in python without issue.