made ingester functional without inputs in preparation for a monitor script restarting it

management/commands/indexer.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from GaiaDBInterface.models import GaiaSource, CatalogFile
 from astropy.coordinates import SkyCoord
 import astropy_healpix as ah
 import numpy as np
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 
 def current_time():
     return (datetime.now() + timedelta(hours=3)).strftime("%H:%M:%S")
@@ -13,7 +14,7 @@ def healpix():
     ORDER='ring'
     
     for catalog_file in CatalogFile.objects.all():
-
+        print(f'[{current_time()}] Loading sources from the database...')
         sources = list(catalog_file.sources.all())
         print(f'[{current_time()}] Sources ready. Forming ra & dec arrays...')