def testPassInOtherQuery(self):
        """
        Test that you can pass OpSim pointings generated from another source
        into an ObservationMetaDataGenerator and still get ObservationMetaData
        out
        """

        pointing_list = self.gen.getOpSimRecords(fieldRA=np.degrees(1.370916))
        self.assertGreater(len(pointing_list), 1)
        local_gen = ObservationMetaDataGenerator()
        obs_list = local_gen.ObservationMetaDataFromPointingArray(pointing_list)
        self.assertEqual(len(obs_list), len(pointing_list))

        for pp in pointing_list:
            obs = local_gen.ObservationMetaDataFromPointing(pp)
            self.assertIsInstance(obs, ObservationMetaData)
    # set the filename default to a sensible value using the obsHistID
    if args.outfile is None:
        args.outfile = phoSimInputFileName(args.visit,
                                           prefix='phosim_input',
                                           suffix='.txt',
                                           location='./')
    # Set up OpSim database
    opSimDBPath = os.path.join(args.OpSimDBDir, args.opsimDB)
    engine = create_engine('sqlite:///' + opSimDBPath)

    obs_gen = ObservationMetaDataGenerator(database=opSimDBPath)
    sql_query = 'SELECT * FROM Summary WHERE ObsHistID == {}'.format(
        args.visit)
    df = pd.read_sql_query(sql_query, engine)
    recs = df.to_records()
    obsMetaDataResults = obs_gen.ObservationMetaDataFromPointingArray(recs)
    obs_metaData = obsMetaDataResults[0]
    sn_sed_file_dir = os.path.join(args.seddir, 'spectra_files')

    availConns = None
    print('will generate pointing for {0} and write to filename {1}'.format(
        obs_metaData._OpsimMetaData['obsHistID'], args.outfile))
    generateSinglePointing(obs_metaData,
                           availableConns=availConns,
                           sntable='TwinkSN_run3',
                           fname=args.outfile,
                           sn_sed_file_dir=sn_sed_file_dir,
                           db_config=args.db_config,
                           cache_dir=args.cache_dir)