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Astrometry.net warning about unit

Open astrofrog opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Currently, using astrometry.net with a recent version of astropy on an image will result in the following INFO message:

INFO: using the unit adu passed to the FITS reader instead of the unit adu in the FITS file. [astropy.nddata.ccddata]

(or similar if another unit is present in the FITS file). This is because of this code:

https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/blob/b1fcfff5bf77255a7d24f17eafe0b9f455d5f598/astroquery/astrometry_net/core.py#L384

Since the unit is irrelevant, it would be nice to avoid having this INFO message printed out which can confuse users especially if adu is not the correct unit. I think there are two options:

  • Don't rely on CCDData to read in the image - after all it wouldn't be that hard to search for the first ImageHDU manually in the file
  • Try and silence the logging output temporarily

astrofrog avatar Aug 08 '22 10:08 astrofrog

another case for using a logger?

bsipocz avatar Aug 08 '22 18:08 bsipocz