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Software for capturing and processing astronomy pictures.
Features, among many others:
- Video capturing from various sources using Video for Windows API. It allows to capture video both from webcams (parallel port or USB) or video cameras (or video tapes) using video capture boards
- Loading AVI files or 24-bit and 8-bit BMP/JPG/PNG sequences, viewing them frame by frame
- Selection of rectangles for each frame
- Aligning and stacking frames (averaging or integrating)
- All frame settings can be saved to project files and can be loaded later for further processing
- Support for dark frames and flat fields
- Enhanced modes of dark frame processing (4 modes)
- Export of frames or frames' rectangles to BMP, JPG, PNG, FIT16, FIT32 or AVI files
- Automatic selection of the best pictures and sorting them according to quality (by means of analysis of high spatial frequencies)
- Measuring angles and angle distances on images
- Calculation of angle of direction East->West. Very useful for creating mosaics (elimitation of field rotation)
- Histogram functions - they allow to extract the most interesting information from the result picture. Histogram dialog includes the following functions: Histogram stretching, gamma or logarithmic brightness scale of image, unsharp mask and blurring, loading and saving processing parameters
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Author(s): Peter Katreiank Version: 2.3.5 Filesize: 1.95 MB Language(s): English License type: Free for private use & 35 days Trialware