UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
For sure many experienced astro photographers already knows, but I'm just informed I can download raw files from hubble science archive and process them for practice. Unfortunately APP does not recognise those *.fits files. Is it possible to fix this?
Thanks.
Can you point me to the exact fits file you're trying to load?
http://hst.esac.esa.int/ehst/#home please search NGC256 (Results page can not be addressed)
Image files (compressed) taken with F656N(Ha) and F502N (OIII) filters.
Thanks.
Ok, thanks! Going to have a look tomorrow, I'm quite interested in data like that as well.
Should be interesting and instructive. But as I said APP does not recognise files. This issue needs to be solved.
Hi Volkan @volkanovun,
Thank you Volkan, the Hubble archive images will now load in the next version APP 1.083 😉
The issue was that these FITS files have very extensive metadata with 5 FITS HDUs of which 3 are images. The first image HDU contains the actual data, and APP was assuming that the 3 image HDUs combined could have been actual RGB data which it is not clearly...
This is a screenshot of hst_10126_01_acs_wfc_f555w_j90601_drc.fits.gz data from NGC256 entered as search at http://hst.esac.esa.int/ehst/#home /a>
Mabula