Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen replied to the topic 'Can't convert .fits image takes by CCDCiel' in the forum. 2 years ago

What does this mean:

“The PNG and TIFF picture will be saved as 16 bit linear images.”

What is a 16-bit linear image? Does this explain why a PNG file created by CCDCiel cannot be viewed by common graphic-viewer apps, while the 8-bit JPG created by CCDCiel is visible? CCDCiel seems to have been designed that way. Why?

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