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CR2 to FITS conversion

Elisabeth Atems
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American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Fri, 05/20/2022 - 19:07

I am new to photometry and am in the process (with my student) of preparing a master bias frame in AIJ from raw bias frames created on a Canon EOS T6i DSLR camera. It appears that AIJ does not recognize Canon RAW files, but requires bias frames to be input in FITS format. Does anyone know of a good free package (or online site) to do the conversion, preferably in batch mode?

DEY_VAR
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American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Fri, 05/20/2022 - 20:52
CR2 to FITS conversion

Greetings,

I don't do a lot of DSLR work anymore but DeepSkyStacker and Fitswork are two that will probably do what you want, both are free.  There are probably others as well.

Jim (DEY)

hrickdiz
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American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Fri, 05/20/2022 - 21:14
Free program to batch convert DSLR files to FITS

I have found the free software ASTAP to be very convenient to convert DSLR files, either Canon or Nikon, to fits format.  There is a batch conversion tool that works quickly and smoothly.  There are many other useful features to ASTAP, including stacking, image calibration, etc., and a photometry tool.  Rick