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Lynkeos

Lynkeos - 2.4

Mac OS X astronomical digital images aligning, stacking and processing

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Current Version: 2.4
Release Date: 2008-12-19
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 601
Downloads (all versions): 6,984

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Product 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 TIFF image (16 bits or floating point), FITS or any image format supported by its plugins, as output, to be further processed with some all-purpose image processing application.

What's new in this version:

  • 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.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • PowerPC G3 or later
  • or any Intel processor.

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Lynkeos CommentaryThis version works on Intel Macs - Version: 1.3-UB, 8/6/2006 12:03PM PST

Fred D.
Thanks again Jean_Etienne for fixing the previous Intel version. This one works as well as the original PPC 1.3
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Lynkeos CommentaryCrashes on startup - Version: 1.3-intel, 6/19/2006 08:17AM PST

Fred D.
I installed this version on my Intel iMac and cannot get it to run. The PPC version runs fines under Rosetta, but this one crashes on startup with the error:

"Link (dyld) error:

Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libtiff.3.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Lynkeos.app/Contents/MacOS/Lynkeos
Reason: image not found"

Anyone else having this problem?
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Lynkeos ReviewOutstanding App! - Version: 1.2, 2/28/2005 06:53PM PST

yuriwho
Excellent application! Just what I was looking for. Not as many options as Kieth's Image Stacker but the ease of use and dark/flat field integration are excellent. Would be nice if it accepted more input file formats (like Canon Raw, FITS etc.). Would also be nice if the final image tinkering pane could have a "no adjustments" setting to allow all post-processing in photoshop (or similar). Keep up the excellent work.
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