Hi,
I'm super new here, so apologies if this is an obvious question. Quick overview of my setup. I've got a ZWO ASI1600MC Pro Cool, a one shot colour cooled camera and am driving it with KStars/EKOS on a Stellarmate with a Mac driving that. All this is now going pretty well and I'm impressed at the sophistication and ease of use of it all as a newbie.
The first processing I did I noticed that images I processed was always in monochrome (Nebulosity and AstroPixelProcessor). I checked with someone and they opened up a FITS image in pixinsight and were able to de-bayer it OK. So yes I realise I need to de-bayer a colour image, I thought though the FITS file would say in it somewhere "hey I'm a colour image" and even better "here is my bayer pattern". I can't seem to find that setting in the settings page in INDI to do this for the ZWO ASI1600 (see attached screen shot. one quick point on this image is that I'm now using 16bit RAW, not 8bit RAW as this image shows). I posed this question to the folks at AstroPixelProcesser (hoping to make this my main processing tool for now) and they mentioned that might be a setting I can use that loads some metadata into the FITS file that tells whoever image processor software you are using that this is a colour image and not a mono one. The answer so far is to "force" the processing software to be in colour VS it being able to figure out from the FITS header that its a colour image. The screen shot attached is from astropixelprocessor (APP) that shows on the right that all the subs are *grey* and have no CFA data in them. This is what I'm looking to see if there is a way in EKOS to tell it "hey write that into the FITS header" when the image is captured. I hope this makes sense.
Is there such a setting in EKOS? or do I have to simply tell the processing software to always "force" it to process it as a one shot colour image and list the bayer pattern?
Thanks in advance. Craig
I'm super new here, so apologies if this is an obvious question. Quick overview of my setup. I've got a ZWO ASI1600MC Pro Cool, a one shot colour cooled camera and am driving it with KStars/EKOS on a Stellarmate with a Mac driving that. All this is now going pretty well and I'm impressed at the sophistication and ease of use of it all as a newbie.
The first processing I did I noticed that images I processed was always in monochrome (Nebulosity and AstroPixelProcessor). I checked with someone and they opened up a FITS image in pixinsight and were able to de-bayer it OK. So yes I realise I need to de-bayer a colour image, I thought though the FITS file would say in it somewhere "hey I'm a colour image" and even better "here is my bayer pattern". I can't seem to find that setting in the settings page in INDI to do this for the ZWO ASI1600 (see attached screen shot. one quick point on this image is that I'm now using 16bit RAW, not 8bit RAW as this image shows). I posed this question to the folks at AstroPixelProcesser (hoping to make this my main processing tool for now) and they mentioned that might be a setting I can use that loads some metadata into the FITS file that tells whoever image processor software you are using that this is a colour image and not a mono one. The answer so far is to "force" the processing software to be in colour VS it being able to figure out from the FITS header that its a colour image. The screen shot attached is from astropixelprocessor (APP) that shows on the right that all the subs are *grey* and have no CFA data in them. This is what I'm looking to see if there is a way in EKOS to tell it "hey write that into the FITS header" when the image is captured. I hope this makes sense.
Is there such a setting in EKOS? or do I have to simply tell the processing software to always "force" it to process it as a one shot colour image and list the bayer pattern?
Thanks in advance. Craig