Así air fotography

aarrieta

First of all my best wishes for the Chinese New Year. Hope that all ZWO family is on good health and was not affected by the virus

Hi, I’m using ASIAIR and a cámara ASI071MCPRO PRO color. When capturing pictures I’m using BIN one and exposures of around 3 to 4 minutes. I can see a full color picture on my IPad after every capture, but when I process them with PixInsight colors are gone and the image seems have been taken with a monochrome camera. Do you have any recommendation to improve.

w7ay

All CMOS sensors (and CCD sensors in DSLR cameras except for the Foveon) start out as monochromatic sensors.

The sensors that are sold as color sensors have a layer of per-pixel color filter arrays, usually laid out in a Bayer pattern (invented at Kodak by Bruce Bayer). In general, the Bayer array is also called a Color Filter Array (CFA)..

To recreate a color image from such a sensor, you will need to apply a "de-bayer" process. With PixInsight, you simply have to turn the Debayer switch on.

The Bayer pattern is a repeat of a 2x2 array, and you will in addition need to tell PixInsight that the ASI071MC has the following format:

It is typically written as "RGGB."

Clear skies,

Chen

PMTeam@ZWO

Yes, as Chen said above. The rates behind the fits file.

The preview image was debayered by default if the color camera is using in ASIAIR.