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DeepSkyStacker 2.6.0 Released

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Posted by Luc on Feb 27, 2007 - 04:27 AM

Twice faster, hyperthreaded/duo/quad/multi iprocessors support, high quality AHD interpolation improvement and availability for FITS files, JPEG and PNG EXIF decoding, Drag and Drop support...

DeepSkyStacker 2.6.0 Released
  • Twice faster: all the long processes have been optimized to divide the global process time by roughly 2
  • Support for multiprocessors, hyperthreaded, duo and quad core processors has been added.
    The added performance gain is from 15% for a hyperthreaded processor, to 25% for a duo core and more than 50% for a quad core.
  • AHD high quality demosaicing is now taking place just before stacking allowing an optimal calibration of the light frames before demosaicing.
  • AHD high quality demosaicing is now available for FITS files created from DSLRs and one shot color CCD camera
  • JPEG and PNG EXIF information are decoded to retrieve exposure time and ISO speed when available.
  • Drag and Drop support has been added.
  • ...

And it’s free!

Download [1] DeepSkyStacker's Home page [2]



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