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Anybody know a lightweight alternative to KStars FITS Viewer for Raspbian?

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I like the FITS Viewer just fine, but often I just want to find a file in the file manager, double-click it, and have a quick look. If I have FITS Viewer associated, it fires up KStars -- a whole new instance, even if I already have one running, which takes several seconds. Likewise it's a lot more clicking to navigate the File | Open | blahblahblah from KStars. I know it's not a huge thing but little user-interface bumps add up, you know?

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Yet Another Fits File Vierwer
github.com/dokeeffe/yaffv

It's was able to navigate into a FITS folder using arrows keys on yout keyboard and also was able to delete unwanted files
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I dunno if I can get the file manager to associate a FITS double-click with running a Python script, but this is certainly along the lines I wanted, thanks!

Any other candidates?
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You can try one from this page: grytom.g6.cz/fits/
The application is in english also
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I think both of those are for Ubuntu. I downloaded the ASTAP source -- I do it for a living, compiling doesn't scare me -- but there doesn't appear to be even a README on how to build it. Probably one buried somewhere on the website, I suppose. Obviously Jasem knows how to do it or ASTAP wouldn't have been an option for solving in previous SM versions!
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You can just download the Debian package for armhf (32bit) and arm64 (64 bit). No compilation required. If you want to compile, install Lazarus and load astap_linux.lpi then compile.

Binaries
64 bit:
sourceforge.net/projects/astap-program/f...p_arm64.deb/download

32 bit:
sourceforge.net/projects/astap-program/f...p_armhf.deb/download


You can associate it to .fits, drop a file on it or for quick scrolling you have this option:



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Quickly reviving an old thread. I know the question was about a light weight FITS viewer, but has anyone tried RawTherapee on their Raspberry Pi?
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Nevermind. RawTherapee doesn't seem to support FITS files.
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Ah, you were still looking at something to read FITS, just not really 'lightweight' ;)

RT starts and runs, even on my Pi3 (not Raspbian but Tumbleweed). Not really usable though - needs minutes to decode a RAW...

The FITS viewer from ASIStudio is very nice. Unfortunately the don't seem to offer this for ARM
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Siril will work. A bit overkill, perhaps. I use Siril for stacking on a Pi4 sometimes, and I clicked on a FITS file once and found it opened in Siril. The Siril viewer has modes such as Linear and Auto-Stretch, which is also handy. Not good for killing bad files, though.
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