Fits to jpg -how to convert

[cdnspooky]

Hi

Starlight Cascade Observatory has received a concam, and we have currently installed it.

So far we have run into some linux issues and the software does not seem to work correctly. We are currently taking pictures manually. These are in fits format, but what program is used to convert to jpg or gif?

Also, after reading that no one uses the plastic dome, we do have one on
ours and dew is an issue. We have a muffin fan blowing in air, but still not enough, though the camera does put out heat, we will have to install some resitors for heat.

Our pictures are taking images, but not automatically. I have crossposted this also into the hardware section.

Thanks
Kim Hay
Starlight Cascade Observatory
http://www.starlightcascade.ca[/url]

[kk]

Things are starting to come along. The camera infrastructure has been up and running for about a month now and last night (Mon Jan 29th, 2007) we managed to find some utilities within the linux imagemajick package to do batch conversions of .fit to .jpg images and to combine *.jpg into an
animated .gif. The WOLF package is installed and now runs, but doesn't accept a CCDOPs v5 generated .fit file. Maybe we have to strip the headers out first? In any event, it's been a fun systems development project to be sure.
More heat in the 14" dome is required as we frosted over quite nicely last night with -28 C temperatures as is a lot more automation in image processing and storage.

Preliminary items can be seen at starlightcascade.ca
Kevin Kell from the StarlightCascade Observatory
near Yarker Ontario Canada