only light curves from SPOC or TESS-SPOC have their fluxes as MaskedQuantities

[Nschanche]

It seems that, on my end at least, this error only occurs with very specific light curves for some reason. It will not run if the flux's type is a MaskedQuantity. After trying out some different light curves for mu Eridani, it seems that only light curves from SPOC or TESS-SPOC have their fluxes as MaskedQuantities:

I haven't tested this with other stars. Does this happen to anyone else as well?

Originally posted by @Paco-2000 in #1338 (comment)

[Nschanche]

Note, the original issue was resolved by updating to astropy 5.3. However, I think this is still an issue as I'm not sure whether the MaskedQuantity vs Quantity data type difference is intentional.

[orionlee]

In terms of the actual codes, lightkurve does not do anything SPOC / TESS-SPOC specific to return MaskedQuantity. It seems to be a by-product of the a) specific FITS format used by SPOC / TESS-SPOC and b) astropy FITS reader behavior.

If it's decided to use Quantity instead of MaskedQuantity, PR #1281 would provide a fix.

I think using Quantity (instead of MaskedQuantity) will alleviate the various quirks / bugs / API differences with MaskedQuantity.
For users who have specific requirement to use MaskedQuantity, they can still convert the columns to MaskedQuantity.