What are the image formats available?
Today, 3 image formats are available with STELLINA: JPEG, TIFF, and FITS. These formats are really different from one to another.
If you would like to know the strengths and weaknesses from each and how to extract them, please have a look at the following tutorial here
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[Vespera range] What are the image formats offered by Vespera?
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