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The usual lossless image compression algorithms is the given. I am talking about compressing it further since the telescope observes the same (or largely overlapping) patches of the sky and the most significant signal is stars, which are more or less "constant". At the very least, they probably could use the lossless "animation" compression algorithms like APNG or FLIF for consequent images of the same sky patch.


Look up fpack and funpack.




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