Using stacked frames from SharpCap

[umasscrew39]

I currently stack frames in SharpCap using a OSC camera or mono for H-alpha only.  I have been exporting them unstretched in PNG format and then opening them in PI for some post-processing.  My question is:  Would another format be better?  I can choose from TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and FITS. 

[chris.bailey]

.FITS would contain much more data than a .png and have no compression.

[umasscrew39]

Thanks for the suggestion, Chris.  I will try it out.

Bruce

[John_Gill]

Hi,

Perhaps just take the "fits" files to PI and "Rack, Pack and Stack"  - I believe you will get a better result. (this is for Bias, Darks, Flats and Lights)

space is not black
John

[Juan Conejero]

Definitely, absolutely, undoubtedly, avoid using PNG, JPEG and TIFF as raw data. Always.

[umasscrew39]

Thanks all.  The combination of aligning and stacking in SC and then post-process in PI gives a unique combination of doing live viewing, saving those final stretched views and then saving the unstretched live views in a format to use PI to get more AP quality images.