Munipack does not includes selected important utilities which can be use independently: rawtran and fitspng. Munipack offers graphical user interface for ones.
Rawtran is a conversion utility of raw photos produced by digital cameras (.CR2, .RAW) to FITS format. One produces files suitable for astronomical image processing (photometry, astrometry, …).
By operation, rawtran is just only a wrapper around dcraw. Rawtran offers improved functionality over recommended utilities in conversion of output of dcraw to FITS format.
Dcraw is not part of Munipack distribution and should be installed separately. Fortunately, dcraw is included in many Linux distributions (also one is easy to compile).
Fitspng is a conversion utility from FITS to PNG format. One produces PNG images which can be directly displayed and edited in usual manner.
The conversion applies advanced types of luminosity or color conversions, scaling, etc. Fitspng uses high dynamical range offered by FITS format and stretch it to restricted RGB color spaces.
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