Lynkeos is a Cocoa application dedicated to the processing of astronomical (mainly planetary) images taken with a webcam through a telescope.

Lynkeos is optimized for multi-processor and multi-core machines and for vectorized instructions sets (Altivec or SSE).

Here are some key features of "Lynkeos":

· Collect the movies and/or pictures.
· Collect calibration (dark and flat fields) movies and/or pictures (optional).
· Align the images.
· Select the best images.
· Stack the selected ones.
· Process the resulting image.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Correction of TIFF display on Intel (2127078)
· Support for floating point TIFF (2216462),
· Add of a process toggling on/off in the process stack window (2248076),
· Implementation of a cache for image processing,
· Refactoring of process chaining,
· Fix of a bug in display when switching to/from calibration frames,
· Better handling of exceptions in threads,
· Fix of compatibility in reading files older than V2.3,
· Access to the process window through the "window" menu,
· Optimization of images refresh,
· Access to plugins help,
· Independent zoom factor for list and result modes.