Placidus
26-12-2015, 09:54 AM
Free to a good home, GoodLook 64 is a suite of three programs written by me, specifically aimed at long focal length deep sky astro-image processing using a monochrome camera and coloured or narrowband filters. (There is only very limited support for one-shot colour). There are three components:
Portobello: Make and apply darks and flats.
Prometheus: Subpixel super-precision registration and stacking, can handle strong rotation, different stretch for different colours, feathering, normalization, artefact rejection, colour noise control, and pretty good fully automatic mosaics.
Displayer: We've been using the 32 bit version of this at ASNSW astro-imaging nights for about 5 years, just to display and explore images. It has:
Histograms and curves, contrast, saturation, colour balance (including one-button auto)
Deconvolution with anti-Panda
Wavelet noise filtering and sharpening, hot pixel removal.
Cosmetic star rounding.
Masks to handle high dynamic range, combine images processed separately for optimum display of foreground and background.
Here is the DropBox link to the Manuals (www.dropbox.com/sh/zxbe63ir4ga0qpi/AAA-QC16abnknnw_JeWj3FQLa?dl=0)
My intention is to keep this software free, in the spirit of amateur astrophotography, because commercialization implies whingers and lawsuits, but it's actually pretty good software.
This is an early release, for which I need some crash-test dummies. Please note the stuff about "This software may harm your computer" and "Only use when fully backed up". It is also for strictly 64 bit machines only.
You can see typical examples of what GoodLook 64 can do, here at my web site. (www.placidus-observatory.com)
I want to effect a controlled release, and get early feedback, so if, having looked at the manuals, you'd like a link to the actual software, please send me an email or private message.
Very best,
Mike
Portobello: Make and apply darks and flats.
Prometheus: Subpixel super-precision registration and stacking, can handle strong rotation, different stretch for different colours, feathering, normalization, artefact rejection, colour noise control, and pretty good fully automatic mosaics.
Displayer: We've been using the 32 bit version of this at ASNSW astro-imaging nights for about 5 years, just to display and explore images. It has:
Histograms and curves, contrast, saturation, colour balance (including one-button auto)
Deconvolution with anti-Panda
Wavelet noise filtering and sharpening, hot pixel removal.
Cosmetic star rounding.
Masks to handle high dynamic range, combine images processed separately for optimum display of foreground and background.
Here is the DropBox link to the Manuals (www.dropbox.com/sh/zxbe63ir4ga0qpi/AAA-QC16abnknnw_JeWj3FQLa?dl=0)
My intention is to keep this software free, in the spirit of amateur astrophotography, because commercialization implies whingers and lawsuits, but it's actually pretty good software.
This is an early release, for which I need some crash-test dummies. Please note the stuff about "This software may harm your computer" and "Only use when fully backed up". It is also for strictly 64 bit machines only.
You can see typical examples of what GoodLook 64 can do, here at my web site. (www.placidus-observatory.com)
I want to effect a controlled release, and get early feedback, so if, having looked at the manuals, you'd like a link to the actual software, please send me an email or private message.
Very best,
Mike