Quick Update:  My trial using the FITS format as the "saved" one failed.  I was only getting greyscale images.  My processing software handles the RAF format just fine so I'm back to  just saving the "native" RAF format (to camera and to Pi).  Tried "compressed" RAF (in the camera, not in Kstars/Ekos/Indo setup) last night.  Seems to work and half the size. (Siril won't read the compressed file - or at least didn't last time I tried it, but PixInsight does).
Ran afoul of crashes last night - 3 hours outside and only 31m 2 minute exposures.  Hopefully tonight will be better (two clear nights in a row w/o moon, hasn't happened since last fall)

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