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. Â Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
Hi all,
I have been processing some M42 data using tutorials on Youtube and all my result images are in black and white.
Can someone point me to a tutorial or workflow to get the final stacked images to show as colour?
My images save as FITS files for GIMP
Thanks
Matt
Matt
You will need to provide more information before anyone can help - but it is very likely that it is one simple error somewhere in your workflow.
Let me ask one question to start.
- When the data has been integrated in APP and the integration is loaded into the APP viewer do you see a colour image ?
A yes or no answer will take us down different troubleshooting paths.
Also (to save some time) what camera and what acquisition software did you use ?
JC
Thanks for replying John!
When I complete the stacking process, the output that is displayed on the screen is colour. The fits image that is saved in the destination folder in the working directory loads up as greyscale when it opens in GIMP.
The camera is a ZWO ASI533MC PRO and the captures are done via the ASI Studio suite (ASIIMAGE).
Matt
Save the stacked image as a tiff file. Does that open as a colour image in GIMP? If it does then the issue is with how GIMP reads FITS files.
That worked Meredith.
On the downside, the TIFF file was significantly smaller than the APP output fits file so quality will suffer?
Save the tiff as a 16 bit tiff and you won't lose any noticeable quality. Save it as a 32 bit tiff (if your other software can open them) and it will be the same quality.
If you open a FITS file in GIMP you have to set the "composition" (dont know what it is in the english GIMP) to NAXIS=3, NAXIS3=2... (see picture, because I only have the german version).
This dialouge should open when loading the FITS into GIMP.
Thanks Jurgen- your solution has solved the issue I was experiencing.
Regards
Matt
Matt
Looks like others beat me to it. I live in Australia, so I was asleep when this was going on. Meridith and Jurgen said most of what I was going to say.
Anyway - glad your issue is solved. Think about moving to NINA - it can do so much more than ASI Studio.
JC
Thanks John.
I will look into NINA software.
Matt
Hi all,
Thank you very much for assisting Matthew @matt-langridgesky-com with his issue.
Can I assume that the issue is solved Matthew? Or do you need any more assistance?
Mabula
