I'm not sure if the camera is 16 or 32 bit ... there's every chance it's 16bit.
My theory might be right but my numbers wrong, perhaps it should be:
Camera = 16bit
CCDSoft FITS = 16bit
CCDSoft TIFs = 8bit
CCDSoft BMPs = 8bit
.... so data is still list.
I'm quite confident there is a data loss in the combined image in CCDSoft vs the FITS as the difference is quite obvious visually when working with the images, but whether it's 32 vs 16 or 16 vs 8 I'm not so sure..
Roger.
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