A Cocoa application dedicated to the processing of astronomical digital images taken through a telescope. It is a “Universal binary” running natively on PowerPC and Intel Macintoshes. It is optimized for vectorized instructions sets (Altivec or SSE), multiprocessor and multicore machines. By stacking the best images, the signal to noise ratio is increased and details lost >
in the noise of individual images become visible in the resulting image.
This software accepts, as input, QuickTime sequences or still images, in any image format supported by its active plugins and Cocoa. It generates a 16 bits RGB TIFF image as output, to be further processed with some allpurpose image processing application.
You only need to download the application to start using it. If you intend to work on FITS files, you need to install the CFITSIO package ; for using AVI or MPEG sequences, install the FFmpeg package.
What’s New in this Version
This release corrects bugs and implement some optimizations
