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Lynkeos - 2.2

processes astronomical webcam images

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Current Version: 2.2
Release Date: 2008-05-01
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 379
Downloads (all versions): 5,027

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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 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 crash upon some switching to list mode (1928672),
  • Correction of an endianness issue in RAW reader, which prevented its use on Intel architectures (1925582),
  • Correction of a missing refresh in the stacking tool (1885959),
  • Add of image updates in the process stack (1885960),
  • Correction of an issue with wavelet levels display after document load (1885958),
  • Correction of the impossibility to save an image from a list (1928841),
  • Add of a tool to correct the chromatic dispersion (1096730),
  • Add of scrollers to the alert panels (1067012),
  • URLs are now saved as relative to the document, which allows to move the images and movies with the document to another folder, or burn them on a CD (1929412),
  • Add of black, white and gamma setting for each color plane.

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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