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I noticed that something has changed with the histogram view several months ago.
I started to largely ignore the histogram and just mouse over the fits image viewer to see what the intensities are.
That's with 16bit astro camera.

Last couple of days I've been playing with a DSLR (Nikon D5500) as an imaging camera for the first time in more that a year.
Both histogram and fits viewer are totally inconsistent and wrong now (was OK a year ago I believe).
Especially when the format is set to Native (NEF in my case).
When the format is set to FITS things get better but still are a bit strange.
Max S.

MeLe 3Q x 2 with Stellarmate X.
Askar FRA400, TPO RC6, Nikon D5500 full spectrum (with IDAS D1 clip-in filter)
ASI2600MC Pro, ZWO ASI120MM Mini x 2
ZWO 30F4, Orion 50 mm f/3.2
ZWO EAF x 2
ZWO AM5, RST-135, SW HEQ5, SW AZ-GTi
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I'm not sure if I understand, do you mean you get a histogram with Fits data, 1-65550 ? My histogram is always 0-255, Canon 6D raw, CR2 files.

How to setup Fits/Histogram to that ?

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/Lars
TS130 APO & 3" field flattener / Pentax 645 ED 300mm f/4
EQ6 mount / HEQ5
Canon EOS 6D
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Sorry, I was confused and didn't understand what's going on...
Yes, for both FITS and NATIVE the histogram is not linear and 0-255.
With NATIVE both histogram and fits viewer are wrong
With FITS, histogram is wrong but the fits viewer shows correct intensities (14bit in my case. 0-16384).
Max S.

MeLe 3Q x 2 with Stellarmate X.
Askar FRA400, TPO RC6, Nikon D5500 full spectrum (with IDAS D1 clip-in filter)
ASI2600MC Pro, ZWO ASI120MM Mini x 2
ZWO 30F4, Orion 50 mm f/3.2
ZWO EAF x 2
ZWO AM5, RST-135, SW HEQ5, SW AZ-GTi
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Okay, then I understand better.

I save my Canon files as Native, but temporarly they must be in fits format. So what I see in the Fitsviewer is converted native files because Fitsviewer can only display fits files, or ?

/Lars
TS130 APO & 3" field flattener / Pentax 645 ED 300mm f/4
EQ6 mount / HEQ5
Canon EOS 6D
Lot of patience

Homepage:
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With the caveat that I'm using StellarMate, not Astroberry, I certainly never see a 256-bit histogram. In the camera tab on the INDI Control Panel, is there an option for 8-bit vs. 16-bit images? For a long time my Pi kept defaulting to 8-bit and my images suffered terribly because of that! Dunno how the CR2 and FITS work together but the FITS off my ASI183, a 14-bit camera, are always 16-bit.
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With a dedicated astro-camera there's no problem with histogram/fits viewer.
With a DSLR there is a problem.
When it is set to NATIVE (at least in my case with D5500 and NEF format), the histogram is 8-bit and stretched all the way and is the same for say 1 sec and 10 sec exposure. Fits viewer also shows wrong intensities I believe.
When it is set to FITS things do get better. Fits viewer shows right intensities but the histogram sometimes is wrong. Sometimes it is OK.
Max S.

MeLe 3Q x 2 with Stellarmate X.
Askar FRA400, TPO RC6, Nikon D5500 full spectrum (with IDAS D1 clip-in filter)
ASI2600MC Pro, ZWO ASI120MM Mini x 2
ZWO 30F4, Orion 50 mm f/3.2
ZWO EAF x 2
ZWO AM5, RST-135, SW HEQ5, SW AZ-GTi
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Maybe something that Ekos put into the FITS header when it transform the raw file temporarly to FITS. Something that mekae FITS Viewer to handle it different.

I haven't find any setting for 8/16 bit either for FITS Viewer.

/Lars
TS130 APO & 3" field flattener / Pentax 645 ED 300mm f/4
EQ6 mount / HEQ5
Canon EOS 6D
Lot of patience

Homepage:
www.astrofriend.eu/
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