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.
Read the introduction it is a good starting point to know what Lynkeos does, why and how.
Please visit this small gallery of images made with Lynkeos.
What's New
Version 2.5:
This release adds two new stacking methods : "sigma reject" and "min/max".
This release also contains bug fixes.
Requirements
PPC / Intel,
Mac OS X 10.5 or later
PowerPC G3 or later processor, or any Intel processor
Excellent news that this nifty utility continues development.
It really behaves excellently, and also on non-star images (I used it for instance to noise-dampen the series of fix images that Huygens took on Titan)
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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.
Read the introduction it is a good starting point to know what Lynkeos does, why and how.
Please visit this small gallery of images made with Lynkeos.
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Hervé 5 reviewed on 03 Sep 2006
It really behaves excellently, and also on non-star images (I used it for instance to noise-dampen the series of fix images that Huygens took on Titan)