Lynkeos

Lynkeos Publisher's Description:
Lynkeos is 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), multi-processor and multi-core 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 all-purpose image processing application.

What's new in this version:

* Correction of a stacking issue which made the application crash on some configurations (1901691),
* Correction of the image updating during process (1922938),
* Update of the RAW file types (1898526),
* Watch cursor management correction (1210430),
* Correction of some memory leaks,
* Implementation of a cache for movie images which greatly speeds up image updating,
* Grayscale Quicktime movies are no more read as RGB (which now allows to save the result as FITS).