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Thank you very much fmw42 and magic for your helpful replies

As it happens -auto-level was just what I was after (I do not want to lose any information when I do post-processing on the image sequence) - it seems to work a charm!

Sorry for the late info...
Here is the header to original.FIT:
SIMPLE T /
BITPIX 16 /
NAXIS 2 /
NAXIS1 660 /
NAXIS2 500 /
OBJECT '0eV'
TELESCOP ''
INSTRUME 'Starlight Xpress CCD'
OBSERVER ''
ORIGIN ''
DATE-OBS '2012-03-04'
TIME-OBS '10:54:14'
HISTORY ''
HISTORY ''
HISTORY ''
HISTORY ''
HISTORY ...

Okay, here is the latest...

original.FIT: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/yedz0v0j9p14cqb/original.FIT?dl=1
original.tif (newly converted with updated 'convert' * - see below): https://dl.dropbox.com/s/zak3oyz9u377ixf/original.tif?dl=1
original_gr.tif (converted using ImageVIEWca): https://dl.dropbox ...

Thank you very much for all your help magick - it has been invaluable!

As it turns out I recompiled on my openSUSE box with "./configure --enable-hdri=yes --with-modules=yes --enable-delegate-build=yes" and I can now use the convert command again :)

Now by using 'identify' on my three images I ...

Once again thanks for the swift reply magick :D

Okay here goes (This will be a bit of a long post - apologies!)...

Below is the output to "convert logo: logo.miff;identify -verbose logo.miff" (the convert command did not forward any messages to the screen):

Image: logo.miff
Format: MIFF ...

Thanks magick,

I tried typing in 'identify -list format|grep "FIT"'. It gives: "FITS* FITS rw- Flexible Image Transport System" as expected. So it would appear that I can read/write FITS files... As an added precaution I looked at the permissions of the IM files in /usr/local/bin and /lib and all ...

Thank you magick for the quick reply :D

I have attempted upgrading to the latest release, but since upgrading convert is throwing up the following error when I attempt to use the command in my previous post:

convert: no decode delegate for this image format `original.FIT' @ error/constitute.c ...

Hello All,

I am having an issue converting grayscale 16-bit FITS images to the TIFF format using ImageMagick's (v. 6.6.0-4) convert command (under either Ubuntu 11.04 or OpenSUSE 11.3). I am using the following command:

convert -colorspace Gray -define dcm:display-range=reset original.FIT -auto ...