Stacking problem

BBFIXIT

Hi
My name is Bill and I need some help with ASI Studio V1.7
When I try to impport my images to the Stacking processor
It will not accept them. I get a window that says .

(Please drag in fits files or directories contain fits files!)

I can’t get them to load into the stacking Processor.
The files are .TIF when I use RAW16
And .PNG when I use RAW8
Can somebody help.
Thanks
Bill

Tech@ZWO

BBFIXIT Please try this:
uninstall and reinstall the ASIStudio, don't click the launch button immediately after installing.
Close the window, and double-click the icon to launch to see if the problem still remains.

BBFIXIT

That did not work. Is the camera (ASI178MC) supposed to produce .FITs or dose the driver do that?
I do not have a uninstaller so I drag and drop to the trash.
If it means anything Im using a Mac Pro with macOS Monterey V12.6.1
Is there anything else I should be removing with the Application?

w7ay

BBFIXIT Is the camera (ASI178MC) supposed to produce .FITs or dose the driver do that?

Bill,

A camera (and its driver) produces raw (unformatted) data.

The program that you connect the camera to (in your case ASIStudio) generates standard formatted data (FITS, PNG, TIFF, JPG) when it saves the raw camera data to a file.

Your stacking program (you didn't mention what program you used) then reads the data in using one of the standard (FITS, PNG, TIFF, etc) format. Check what formats your stacking program is compatible with.

By the way, on macOS, you should be able to use Preview.app to read either TIFF or PNG formatted files. Just drag and drop those files into the Preview application icon. You can, for example read in a TIFF file into Preview and export as a PNG file if your stacking program can only work with PNG format.

Be aware that a typical astro image will usually appear as an all black frame in Preview until you stretch it using Tools > Adjust Color... .

Chen

BBFIXIT

Thank you. I found the problem.