[AstroPy] AstroPy Digest, Vol 151, Issue 3

[Derek Homeier]

On 17 Apr 2019, at 8:32 pm, Ivan Valtchanov <ivvv68 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You cannot use BinTableHDU to create an astropy.tableTable object. When you try to do this you get this error:
> 
> table = Table(hdu[1])
> 
>  Data type <class 'astropy.io.fits.hdu.table.BinTableHDU'> not allowed to init Table
> 
> But this one works,
> 
> table = Table(hdu[1].data) 
> 
> although I don't think it's documented in  astropy.table docs. I could not find it easily.
> 
Actually you can pass the BinTableHDU object to the read() function instead of a file,
which will properly handle the rest (including filling the table.meta information), and
that’s probably what Christoph referred to:

table = Table.read(hdu[1])

But it certainly looks like a peculiar egg; Happy Easter!

					Derek