AstroArt Version 5

AstroArt Version 5

Award Winning Astro Image Processing Program

A complete software for image processing, photometry, astrometry, camera control and image stacking for digital and film images.

All major CCD cameras are supported by Astroart. Focusing, autoguiding, imaging and scripting become easy and quick.

All major telescopes, filter wheels, focusers are supported too. New drivers are released almost every month.

Astroart is also an open system with plug-in support. All programmers of C, C++, Pascal can create new filters using the free development kit.

Advanced filters
Adaptive low pass, Maximum entropy deconvolution, Larson Sekanina, hot pixel removal, unsharp mask, remove gradient, deblooming, DDP, FFT, etc. with full preview.

Astrometry and photometry
with integrated star atlas, GSC included, USNO and UCAC supported. MPC reports, aperture photometry, batch photometry, estimation of measuring errors, plate solving. MPCORB minor planets.

Image stacking
Automatic on sets of images, with sub-pixel precision. Five algorithms (star patterns, one star, two stars, planet, correlation), drizzle, color synthesis and batch processing.

Color imaging
Native 96 bit, visualized in real time without modifying the underlying data. Quadrichromy LRGB and WCMY with L.A.B. conversion. Color balance, color curves, adaptive saturation.

High speed
Astroart is a extremely fast software thanks to its code optimized in SSE assembly. Fully compatible from Windows 7 to Windows 2000. For futher information:

All the functions of Astroart have been improved or rewritten from scratch.
Here is a quick list:

Autoalignment
New algorithm based on star patterns, corrects rotation and translation on grayscale and color images.

Preprocessing
Fully rewritten, with many new features to automatically align and stack images.

Filters
All filters have been rewritten and now give better results in less time.

Curves
For realtime visualization, histogram stretch and tone mapping.

Plate solving
For astrometry and/or automatic recentering of the telescope after a GOTO.

New commands
Cosmetic filters (compress stars, remove lines, etc.), gradient removal, histogram stretch, adaptive saturation, batch photometry, reticle.

More speed
Thanks to SSE/SSE2 instructions up to 4 pixels are processed at once.

A demonstration version of AstroArt 5 is available for download from our online Library.

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