Program for CCD camera control and astronomical image processing. It can control many of the astronomical CCD cameras currently on the market, and it makes the image processing tasks commonly required for astronomical images straightforward and automatic. Intended to be used as a companion to SkyChart III.
Cameras controled include: SBIG ST-5, ST-5C, ST-237, ST-6, ST-7, ST-8, ST-9
Celestron PixCell 255, 237; Meade Pictor 208, 216; Starlite Xpress HX-516, MX-516, MX-916, MX-5, MX-5C and Cookbook 245.
Features include: lets you view the entire dynamic range of an image. You aren't just limited to 8 bits or 255 levels of red, green, and blue; performs all of the basic image-processing operations you'd expect (e.g. rotating, scaling, trimming, padding). There are also easy adjustments for brightness/contrast and color balance, and filters for sharpening, smoothing, and removing noise from images.
More advanced image-processing are reconstructing RGB color images from separate red-, green-, and blue-filter images, as well as the inverse of this process (i.e., separating RGB color images into their red, green, and blue components), dark-frame subtraction and flat-field division.
