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Old 04-08-2021, 03:50 PM
Startrek (Martin)
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Originally Posted by AdamJL View Post
Hi Russ

Hands down the fastest software to review your FITS files is ASIStudio.
It's free to download, includes all their capture and stacking software (which I don't use) but a very quick to use FITS viewer. It's like viewing jpegs in Windows Explorer; nearly instant. I found ASTAP takes too long to load files

For stacking, I use DSS.
For image capture, NINA.
NINA will also show you your latest image and stretch it if you prefer. You can cycle through your stack of stretched images as well, but it also takes a while in NINA.

ASIStudio is the way to go if you just want to quickly view your files.

Cheers
Adam
Adam,
ASTAP loads my files ( eg 80 x 3 min subs 50MB per file ) on my lappy in 5 sec
Almost instantly
What’s the specs on your PC / Laptop ??
Cheers
Martin

PS: I use APT and does exactly what you described NINA does , again my images are instantaneous too in APT

Interested to know what PC / Laptop you use and software version etc... these files shouldn’t take too long to open ?
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