GoodLook 64 is about a year old now. I wrote it with a particular view to processing the images you've been seeing on this forum from our 20" CDK.
The suite is free to a good home. Things it does a bit differently:
- Geared toward the kind of thing we do: long focal length long exposure deep sky, and epecially tri-colour narrowband. Don't bother with planetary, one-shot colour, or wide field.
- Hundredth-of-a-pixel registration algorithm handles rotation, meridian flip, changes in image scale with focus, and some higher order distortions. No more mis-registration of colour channels.
- Automatic seamless mosaics. Nothing special to do.
- Automatic robust handling of cosmic rays, hot pixels, satellites, bad columns etc.
- Near automatic handling of dark point and colour balance. This and many other features make life easy for coloublind astrophotographers, such a "Flashing Red" mode.
- Starless image processing. No magenta rings. Permits strong sharpening of narrowband background features.
- Expects a big fast 64 bit Windows 7-10 machine with dot Net framework 4, 1920 or wider screen, and at least 16, preferably 24Gb of memory.
You can see some recent images processed entirely using GoodLook 64 at
www.mikeberthonjones.smugmug.com.
There is also 80 pages of relatively jargon-free manual written in something like the Queen's English.
I'm utterly terrified putting it out there, for public scorn, but equally don't want all that work to starve in the dark. If you would like to try, send me an email and I'll send you a link.
Very best,
Mike
Thanks for offering your hard work up for us all. Are you still enhancing it ? Anyways I'd like to try it out if I could.
