Warning about column name containing hyphen character.

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Documenting the structure to run quicksurvey

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Warning about column name containing hyphen character. #7

Open weaverba137 opened 7 years ago

weaverba137 commented 7 years ago

Running fitsverify on the obslist_all.fits file produces the following warning:

*** Warning: Column #17: Name "DATE-OBS" contains character '-' other than
             letters, digits, and "_".

The specific file is /global/project/projectdirs/desi/users/forero/datachallenge2017/test/quicksurvey_example/input/obsconditions/Benchmark030_001/obslist_all.fits.

weaverba137 commented 7 years ago

PS, this is not just a minor annoyance. This column name could cause problems when the file is read in with astropy.io.fits. Accessing the column via the object representing the table via foo.DATE-OBS would not be possible.