Getting B&W images

[woldsweather]

I have 5 hours of 2 min subs oif M31 which I have processed in Astro Pixel Processor (my usual stacking software) and DSS and both come out with a black and white image. Is there a setting in SC that can have got changed? Maybe to do with me having to input all my settings every time I use SC (lat/long/baud rate, COM port etc).

[admin]

Hi,

it sounds as though you have RAW colour images and the software is not spotting that, so is not debayering them to bring out the colour information. You can confirm this by zooming in on one of the images until you see individual pixels - if you see a sort of chessboard pattern on top of the image then it is definitely a RAW colour image.

You need to set up your processing software to debayer the images into colour - see this thread for discussion of that and a 'HOWTO' document : viewtopic.php?t=254

cheers,

Robin

[woldsweather]

Yes definitely a raw colour image. Odd neither APP nor DSS debayers them.

[admin]

Not sure about APP, but DSS used to only offer to debayer if the file was in FITS format, and even then you had to tweak some settings in DSS to make it happen. I believe there was work in progress in DSS to improve that, but not sure if it is in the released version yet.

cheers,

Robin