Combining slices loses FITS header data

Posted by Bill Tschumy on Sep 15, 2022; 2:22pm
URL: http://astroimagej.170.s1.nabble.com/Combining-slices-loses-FITS-header-data-tp1997.html

I have been investigating using AIJ as a replacement for ASTAP in my photometry processing.  I use a relatively small scope for imaging and commonly stack images to increase the SNR.  I then submit the stacked image to AAVSO for analysis in VPhot.

It seems like AIJ wasn't really designed for image stacking like I need.  After aligning my images, I chose "Combine stack slices into single image...".  This seems to lose all the FITS header information.  This info is needed to work with VPhot.  I could copy the header from a sub-image and apply it to the stacked image,, but this isn't really right either.

Am I doing something wrong or is AIJ not really designed for what I need?  I realize it's main use if time series analysis and it works great for that.

Bill