Color camera but images are black and white?

[skatsikas]

Greetings,

Newbie here. Using a ZWO294MC Pro with Sharpcap Pro. Captured shots of NGC7000 (North American Nebula). Sharpcap was set to save images as PNG files (probably should have set it for FITS). The images are all monochrome when viewed in PS or any other application. Any advice on how to make this color or has that ship sailed on these subs? Any idea what I did wrong? I have attached a link to a sub in case someone can assist.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nDqmxz ... sp=sharing

Camera Settings:
[ZWO ASI294MC Pro]
Debayer Preview=On
Pan=0
Tilt=0
Output Format=PNG files (*.png)
Binning=1
Capture Area=4144x2822
Colour Space=RAW16
High Speed Mode=Off
Turbo USB=80
Flip=None
Frame Rate Limit=Maximum
Gain=200
Exposure=60.000001
Timestamp Frames=Off
White Bal (B)=49
White Bal (R)=48
Brightness=13
Temperature=-10
Cooler Power=53
Target Temperature=-10
Cooler=On
Auto Exp Max Gain=285
Auto Exp Max Exp M S=30000
Auto Exp Target Brightness=100
Mono Bin=Off
Banding Threshold=35
Banding Suppression=0
Apply Flat=D:\sharpcap captures\2020-09-06\Capture\flats\02_04_13.png
Subtract Dark=None
#Black Point
Display Black Point=0.037109375
#MidTone Point
Display MidTone Point=0.0573742125451437
#White Point
Display White Point=0.998046875
Notes=
TimeStamp=2020-09-07T02:39:13.8929959Z
SharpCapVersion=3.2.6396.0




Thanks,
Steve

[admin]

Hi Steve,

your images have been captured in RAW format, which means an additional step is required to recover the colour information - see this thread : viewtopic.php?t=254

Robin

[skatsikas]

Perfect! Whew! If I save as "FITS", can I avoid the step that requires PIPP?

Thanks for the excellent support.

Steve

[turfpit]

Steve

If I save as "FITS", can I avoid the step that requires PIPP

Yes. I happened to use PIPP to demonstrate how to get around the issue and rescue the subs. The post processing software (e.g. Astro Pixel Processor) will debayer the FITS frames based on information in the headers (see BAYERPAT).

bayer-pattern-in-FITS-header.JPG (12.69 KiB) Viewed 1881 times

Dave