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Offline ColinR

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Saving a Star Mask
« on: 2019 October 16 05:31:42 »
On saving a star mask the dialog box indicates to save as a 16 bit integer. Should save as 16 bit or change this to a 32 bit IEEE 742 floating point? The mask was created from an .xisf file.

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Offline Stu

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Re: Saving a Star Mask
« Reply #1 on: 2019 October 16 09:12:18 »
I don't think it matters as long as the geometry is the same.
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Offline Brad

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Re: Saving a Star Mask
« Reply #2 on: 2019 October 16 10:35:13 »
I would think saving a mask as anything other than 16-bit would be over kill.
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Re: Saving a Star Mask
« Reply #3 on: 2019 October 16 10:50:45 »
well, was the image that you extracted the starmask from a 32-bit floating point image? is the starmask itself a 32-bit FP image? if so, and you save as 16 bit, you will lose some data. maybe not much, but some for sure.

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Offline ColinR

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Re: Saving a Star Mask
« Reply #4 on: 2019 October 17 03:21:56 »
Stu, Rod, Pfile,

thanks for your inputs, I now know what my options are.

Thanks again

ColinR
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