SBIG CCDOPS image

SBIG CCDOPS image is a raster image file format produced by the CCDOPS software associated with SBIG CCD astronomical cameras. SBIG stands for Santa Barbara Instrument Group.

Images are 16-bit grayscale, and use a custom compression scheme based on delta encoding.

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Specifications

 * SBIG Type 3 Image File Format Application Note

Software

 * Netpbm: sbigtopgm
 * SBIG Software
 * SBIG Software Archive

Links

 * SBIG web site