Reading Maxim FITS files

[ghartke]

I find that the only FITS format that I write from Maxim that can be read properly in PixInsight is in a 16-bit unsigned integer format. I'm sure that isn't right and that PI can read the IEEE 32-bit float format that Maxim writes but I haven't been able to find the trick to make it work. I would appreciate any insight into my error. Thanks for the help!

Greg Hartke
Sykesville, MD USA

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Greg,

PixInsight is able to read and write virtually any valid FITS file.

Supported features include:

- 8-bit unsigned integers.
- 16 and 32-bit signed and unsigned integers.
- 32 and 64-bit IEEE floating point.
- Grayscale and RGB color images.
- Unlimited number of alpha channels.
- Embedded ICC profiles, metadata, color space and resolution data.

I would like to see one of these FITS files that you cannot open in PixInsight. Could you please upload some of them to a website and post the address here? Also, what error message(s) are you getting when you try to open them?

Thank you.