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Support for Flexible Image Transport System (fits) format please? (Astronomy)

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  • April 5, 2019
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Hi everyone!

Is there any chance we could see support for the fits (

.fits, .fit, .fts
 ) format, it's a format used by professional and amateur astronomers, and some other parts of the scientific community. Some info here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS

and here:

https://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_documentation.html

and here:

https://photographingspace.com/how-to-use-fits/

Libraries for it are available here:

https://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_libraries.html

It's an open format, free to use.

I would *love* to get FME to process/automate this stuff. After an observing session, I end up with thousands images and gigabytes of data, each in a separate R,G,B and L channel, which I have to sort and process and then recombine into a colour RGB image. It literally takes me hours and hours to do.

Typically I use a program like deepsky stacker or registax, but it is pretty labour intensive at times. We have to register the images, so that they are properly aligned (objects move even when tracking them, so the software learns to keeps the same stars lined up for each image) and then stacked to boost the signal to noise ratio. They get aligned so that they don't appear smeared out. I would provide a sample fits image but it's not supported here for upload! :(

Happy to go into further detail, and answer any questions.

Thanks!

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