What is the deal with .fits conversion? It seems much shakier than it needs to be. I took a couple of not very good, newbie level captures of the lunar eclipse last night using CCDCiel, which saves them as .fits files. CCDCiel displays them decently. They don't seem to be displayable by any other program. My thought was to convert them to .jpeg or .png for sharing purposes, but none of the several tools I Googled for .fits to .png conversion worked. A couple were online, they produced a black rectangle instead of the image that CCDCiel was showing them. Can soimeone explain to me what's up with that? If I can't solve this issue, I'm reduced to taking screenshots for sharing, not ideal.

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