yomama does not require any sort of advanced scripting knowledge for its use. Written completely in Java, is platform independent and as such can be run by beginnesr or experts alike, no matter what kind of computer they own.

There are many display modes: several commands of stretching, but the most interesting one is a new transfer function to do the image contrast, that can be defined by the user by several parameters. The palette command is also fully editable and definable by the user. It is also possible to display the spectral analysis, and to create animations.

The menu for image processing comprises a wide range of convolution filters; apart of the standard high-pass and low-pass, unfocussed mask, gaussian and averages, the user can also try the innovative ones as non-linear and adapters. It is also possible, through a sub-menu user filter, to create own personal filters. One of the most important characteristics of Vision Pro is the possibility of several algorithms of deconvolution, very useful to recover part of the resolution lost in the image, due to many reasons as optical aberration, defocusing, tracking error etc...

The software uses the FFT application and other particular filters as the high-emphasis, to evidence the weak areas without to saturate the stronger ones; also homorphic is very useful to devignetting images where it was not possible to apply the flat-field.

For expertise users, it is available the IPBL language, very similar to Basic, designed to satisfy any particular needings as the elaboration of a sequences of images."

The features include:

Lets you: capture BMP, AVI or FIT files, AVI files for a set number of seconds or a set number of BMPs sequentially; log your activity automatically; see a huge screen in Focus Mode; put crosshairs, grids and a reticule in Focus Mode; overlay bitmaps in Focus Mode; add a 'DataBack' to the final images; add the image notes to the final images; 'stack/merge/sum' images in real time to create an average bitmap and thus remove noise; hit the spacebar in Focus Mode .

Supports: 2x2,3x3,4x4 binning; 'Video-Integration' for simulating long exposures; Averaged and Summed Dark Frames; RGB Colour Separations; Time Lapse Imaging; Real-Time Image analysis to help get the best images.

Additional plug-in and catalogue files available in the homepage

Stellar Magic provides a host of convolution filters as well as FFT operations and sophisticated deconvolution procedures for manipulating images. It also performs image registration and mosaic creation in addition to standard operations such as dark frame subtraction and flat-fielding.

Cameras controled include: SBIG ST-5, ST-5C, ST-237, ST-6, ST-7, ST-8, ST-9 Celestron PixCell 255, 237; Meade Pictor 208, 216; Starlite Xpress HX-516, MX-516, MX-916, MX-5, MX-5C and Cookbook 245.

Features include: lets you view the entire dynamic range of an image. You aren't just limited to 8 bits or 255 levels of red, green, and blue; performs all of the basic image-processing operations you'd expect (e.g. rotating, scaling, trimming, padding). There are also easy adjustments for brightness/contrast and color balance, and filters for sharpening, smoothing, and removing noise from images.