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Old 26-12-2015, 09:54 AM
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GoodLook 64 Image Processing Suite

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

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.

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

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Old 26-12-2015, 11:24 AM
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Hi Mike, is it OSX compatible?
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Old 26-12-2015, 12:09 PM
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Hi, Andy,

Good to hear a friendly voice and know I'm not totally alone here!

Almost certainly not OSX compatible, although I'm no guru. It uses .NET framework, so in principle should run on any machine and any operating system that supports .NET, but in practice I think that means Windows. Don't really know.

The up-side of using .NET is that the executables are tiny. Separately, the high degree of parallelization and use of C++ for the low level stuff means it's also blazing fast.

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That is totally awesome Mike, the software looks very promising.

I would love to test it but need to upgrade my old computer first...
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Old 26-12-2015, 03:23 PM
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That is totally awesome Mike, the software looks very promising.

I would love to test it but need to upgrade my old computer first...
Thanks Slawomir. Eventually the old machine will succumb to the hammer and a new one will appear.
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Old 27-12-2015, 09:45 PM
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A couple of you have kindly volunteered to give GoodLook 64 a try on Mac/OSX.

Because GoodLook 64 uses .NET framework, it would be way beyond my abilities to support, so sadly, we need to concentrate on Windows machines for the time being.

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Old 29-12-2015, 10:52 PM
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So far the only bad news from our brave volunteers has been a problem reading 16 bit and 32 bit unsigned integer FITS. (Luckily, the manual didn't say that they were supported). This is now fixed. Thanks to David for pointing this out.
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So far the only bad news from our brave volunteers has been a problem reading 16 bit and 32 bit unsigned integer FITS. (Luckily, the manual didn't say that they were supported). This is now fixed. Thanks to David for pointing this out.
Been reading JPEG, 16 bit TIFF, 16 Bit FIT, 32 Bit unsigned integer FIT files also from CCD Stack and Pixinsight. The only thing it won't open are 32 Bit float FIT files but I think it's outside the specs anyway.
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Been reading JPEG, 16 bit TIFF, 16 Bit FIT, 32 Bit unsigned integer FIT files also from CCD Stack and Pixinsight. The only thing it won't open are 32 Bit float FIT files but I think it's outside the specs anyway.
Yes it does, just tryed it (from CCD stack)
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