Converting TIFF to FIT?

[starfield]

Hi,

The other night I ended up capturing a bunch of SharpCap files as TIFF images instead of FITS. The causes me grief in DSS since it treats these as Mono instead of color. Does anyone know of a program for converting TIFF files to FITS? Or, of a way to get DSS to treat my TIFF images as color instead of monochrome.

Thanks for the help.

[JayTee]

Yes, Irfanview will display the .fits files. But It won't allow you to see them in a folder so you can't do batch processing. This means you'd have to convert them one frame at a time.

Alternatively, you can use ImageMagick to open and batch convert.

Cheers,
JT

[Graeme1858]

PIPP might help you out.

https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp/

Regards

Graeme

[Micke187]

http://www.msbsoftware.it/avis/ maybe this is interesting.

[SkyHiker]

The other night I ended up capturing a bunch of SharpCap files as TIFF images instead of FITS. The causes me grief in DSS since it treats these as Mono instead of color.

DSS generally does not treat TIFF as mono unless there is something special about your TIFF file. You may have to edit it to bring out the color, the DSS editor is quite good at that. Many people are surprised how the DSS stacked image looks like grey scales; you just have to bring out the color, with DSS or any other 32 bit editor.