Hi all,

I'm getting back into astrophotography after a long hiatus, so I have a lot of catching up to do. In the past I always took all my frames in dslr raw to camera's memory card with a wired intervalometer. Now I got kstars/ekos running and tried saving as FITS to laptop hard drive and I noticed only after the fact when I tried to calibrate my lights - some of the pictures have different dimension. Some are 6024x4012, some are 6024x4024. For my usual camera raws the resolution is always x4024.

In the log file I find the following;

I did not notice this at all while capturing, and now ofc I can not calibrate and integrate my lights as the sizes are off. I suspect nothing can be done to try and salvage this data?

Looking at the log file I also notice that the version of Kstars is rather old, 3.5.7 from 2022. Setting up a laptop for this purpose I defaulted to current LTS release ubuntu and this is what came from the repositories, after adding mutlaqja/ppa and pch/phd2. Should I add other sources for more recent versions, or perhaps use another distro altogether to stay more up to date with the relevant software?

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