Konstantin v. Poschinger Aug 2, 2006
> Hello Konstantin,[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> > I know it is a bit complicated the way Guide displays the images.
> > Mostly I can work it out now. But with the image 7c000580.fit I have
> > a real problem. It is much too bright and I can't change it. The
> > image is located in Cepheus RA 21 48, DE 58 46. I have opend it with
> > Maxim and tried to change it but with no result.
>
> I displayed the above region in Guide 8 and the image is completely
> white. I
> renamed the file to 7c000580.fts and opened it in AIP. The pixel
> values are all in
> the range from -29681 to 0. I added 35000 ADUs to all pixels and
> saved the
> image. The effect was nill as you also noted, it was again white.
>
> > I tried to throw it
> > away, with the result that it came back by its own. Where is the
> > original, and can I change it?
>
> If you right click on the upper left corner of the image you will
> get the folowing
> information:
>
> 7c000580.fit
> 573x882
> imgda124.idx
> Line 5
> Contrast 1500 to 10000
>
> There is a subfolder with the name Images. I opened the file
> imgda124.idx with
> WordPad. In line 4 (!) is the entry for the above image:
> 4 set of coordinates (probably the corners of the image), min and
> max values,
> dimension. But the rest of the line I can't interpret. Perhaps some
> byte positions
> in the file Imgda124.lmp. I opened it, but besides the first
> characters (which
> equals a FITS-header) its binary.
>
> Now I closed Guide, deleted 7c000580.fit, renamed the processed
> image from
> 7c000580.fts to 7c000580.fit and reopened Guide. Et voila, the
> image displays
> ok.
>
> But I don't know if this will last forever, since it seams that the
> images which are
> displayed in the window of Guide will be created on the fly,
> because the date
> and time of the fit-files are actual.
>
> Clear skies
> Bernd
>
> Bernd Brinkmann
>
> Sternwarte Herne, MPC code A18
> Herne, Germany
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