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Pro UE (Legacy)
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| 64-bit application runs only
on a 64-bit version of Windows. This increases software capabilities and
performance by exploiting the increased processing speed and expanded 64-bit memory space of a 64-bit operating system. |
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| 32-bit application runs on both 32-bit
and 64-bit versions of Windows. Note: A 32-bit application cannot
access 64-bit
capabilities even when installed on a 64-bit operating system. |
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| Advanced User Interface components:
docking panes, drop button menus, tear-off menus, floating submenus,
and custom configuration. |
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| Direct topic help for windows, dialogs, panes, grids, and
toolbars |
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| High Performance Image Display |
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| Image Set support (1 to n images per window)
for most commands |
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| Image set management (add, delete, re-order) |
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Open image sets (groups
of image files) |
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Save image sets (save all, save to folder, save with suffix) |
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Sort image set by properties (exposure, date, etc) |
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Image Blinking and Animation, 1/10 to 50 frames per second. |
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| Image Toolbar: shows Magnified view, thumbnail view,
image set buttons, and image adjustment buttons. |
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Dynamic palette manipulation |
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Palette Color-bar Docking Pane (horizontal or vertical) |
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Pseudo-color, grayscale, and RGB palettes |
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High
Performance Transfer Function management |
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Transfer Function Docking Pane (horizontal or vertical) |
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Boost Transfer Function Enhancement |
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Dedicated
Image
cursor (separate from mouse pointer) |
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Zoom
16x to 1/16x in factors of 2, dynamic panning, mouse wheel |
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Zoom 16x to 1/1024 (for huge images) in factors of 2, dynamic
panning, mouse wheel |
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Print images, grayscale or color |
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Print image to scale, size, or placement on page |
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Print overlay grid, keyword text, and comments |
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Copy image to Windows clipboard |
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1-D
plotting of image data |
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Configure plot scale, ticks, fonts, labels, colors, borders, and
direction |
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Configure plot window colors and size |
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WYSIWYG Printing of plots with preview |
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Plot printing page placement, size, and scale |
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Plot Series support |
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Plot series blinking and animation |
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| Plot Single column and row intensity profile |
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| Plot Multiple column and row intensity profiles |
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Plot
Averaged column and row intensity profile |
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Mean, Median, and Sum plot averaging modes |
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Standard Deviation plot averaging mode |
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Plot
intensity profile along a drawn line |
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Over-plot lines parallel to a drawn line |
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Plot 1-D data in world coordinates or pixel coordinates |
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Configure marker and line size, color, symbols |
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Plot Bar docking pane with coordinate readout, world coordinates,
statistics, and other measurement tools. |
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Plot data statistics, measure and draw on plot |
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Plot line and point measurements |
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Scatter plot of tabular data (all cells or specific cells or rows) |
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Dynamic plot coordinate readout |
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Plot zoom, expand, and pan |
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Dynamic plot coordinate readout |
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Live constrained x or y plot zoom and pan |
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List measurements in tabular format |
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Measure distance and angle |
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Live coordinate measurement in pixel and world coordinates |
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Measure centroid coordinates |
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Measure image statistics inside a rectangular region |
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Support for FITS World Coordinate System
("WCS") Standard |
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Julian Date calculation (photometry: JD, HJD, MJD, MHJD) |
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Angular (arcsecond) coordinate scale |
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Delete world coordinate scale |
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Draw text labels and markers on images |
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Set label options (marker shapes, size, colors, font, placement) |
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Display and edit FITS header (FITS format images) |
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FITS Header Editor Docking Pane |
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Display and edit image information (TIFF, and other image formats) |
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Set Author & Copyright information (or equivalent) |
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Immediate and batch mode selection of 1 or many images available in
the command dialog for most commands. Images can be selected from am
Image display window, files, lists, or
folder using selection criteria (e.g., naming patterns, keyword
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Profile tool to manage parameter presets saved with a name; available in
most command dialogs. |
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Image Arithmetic: add, subtract, multiply, divide, blend
(interpolate) |
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Image Arithmetic: remainder, reverse division |
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Crop image to image cursor bounds (interactive) |
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Trim images using SECTION keyword in image header |
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Modify or add keyword values and names to image headers |
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Image Value Arithmetic: add, subtract, multiply, divide |
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Image Value Arithmetic: divide into, blend (interpolate), remainder |
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Image Operations: change sign, exponential, log 10 |
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Image Operations: log e, absolute value, reciprocal |
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Image Operations: byte swap, change data type, square root |
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Rotate 90, 180, 270, or transpose image |
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Rotate a specified angle about center or about a point. |
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Mirror flip left/right, or up/down |
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High precision image registration (alignment) |
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Shift alignment |
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Skew alignment (rotate, shift, scale x, scale y, non-perpendicular
axes) |
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Extract color plane from RGB image |
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Convert to grayscale or RGB image |
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Merge channel images to make RGB image |
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Merge channel images to make LRGB image |
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De-speckle to remove color channel point noise |
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Basic filters: Sharpen, De-speckle, Custom 3x3 kernel |
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Image Combining with offset and scale normalization |
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Image Combining: Mean, Median, Sum, Zero-masked mean |
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Image Combining: Standard deviation, Range, MTM Mean |
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Image Combining: Min/max clipped, Sigma clipped, Minimum Value,
Maximum Value |
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Image Combining: MTM Sigma-weighted Mean, Keyword-weighted Mean,
Rank Statistic |
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Basic Image Calibration (manually create & apply bias, dark, flat
frames) |
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Native support for 8, 16, unsigned 16, and 32 bit integer data types |
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Native support for 32 and 64 bit real data types |
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Native support for 24 and 48 bit RGB data types |
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Image format support: FITS, TIFF, BMP, JPEG |
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Supports file opening plug-ins for alien formats |
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| Screen Capture utility |
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| 1-Click align at point |
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| 1-Click align on extended object (planet, comet head, etc.) |
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Measure magnitudes using aperture photometry |
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Unlimited measuring apertures, standard apertures, and sequential images |
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Plot light curve for target stars, standards, and check stars. |
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Prepare AAVSO report in extended format (single & ensemble) |
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Single Object Photometry, Series Photometry, Ensemble Photometry |
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Circular photometry apertures |
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Elliptical photometry apertures |
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Edit photometry data, print, save to file, copy to clipboard,
scatter plot |
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Astrometric Calibration (plate solution), saved as WCS |
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Add simple, low precision equatorial coordinate scale |
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Interactive Pixel Repair |
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Import photometry catalogs using (X, Y) coordinates |
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Import photometry catalogs by (RA, Dec) coordinates |
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Airmass Calculator (in addition to the photometry tool) |
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View live table of pixel values |
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Interactively edit pixel values in tabular format |
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Pixel Table Docking Pane |
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Image Set Toolbar for quick manipulation of the image collection |
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Copy
and paste plots between windows |
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List plot point data in tabular format |
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Plot points at same coordinates in an image set |
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Copy
and Paste images between windows |
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Histogram Plotting |
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Plot Bit Histograms for camera and image diagnostics |
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Radial Profile Plot with Gaussian + Constant fit |
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3-D
Plotting |
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3-D
Surface, Illuminated, Wireframe, and Z-shaded plots |
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3-D dynamic tilt and rotation (manual or automated) |
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3-D Quad and triangular pixel facets |
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3-D Z-axis scaling |
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3-D dynamic palettes and pseudo-color |
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3-D
Dynamic adjustable viewpoint, illumination, and attributes |
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Contour plotting, 1 to 100 levels, auto or user specified |
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Interactive Contour Plotting |
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Read Noise Calculator for CCD images |
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Gain Calculator for CCD images |
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Linear coordinate scale (e.g., mm, microns, km, etc.) |
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List world coordinate keywords from image header |
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Image
cursor "Go To" pixel or world coordinate, within an image or between
images. |
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View HISTORY and COMMENT keywords |
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Crop or trim image to specified (column, row) bounds |
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Set pixel values directly
in the image |
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Set region value with optional Gaussian random noise |
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Flatten background with 1x1 up to 10x10 polynomial surface |
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Subtract or divide polynomial surface or create image of the
surface |
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Scale image by a specified factor |
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Scale image differently in x and y directions |
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Shift image (whole pixel or fractional pixel amounts |
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Expand image to larger size |
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Imbed image into another image |
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Affine transformation (scale, rotate, and shift) |
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Convert to luminance image using channel weights |
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Extract byte plane from
image having 8 to 64 bits per pixel |
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Custom filter kernel, m x n pixels |
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Unsharp masking filter |
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Sharpening Filters: Unsharp Mask, High Pass (m x n pixels) |
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Smoothing Filters: Rectangle, Elliptical, Gaussian, Block Average |
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Smoothing Filters: Binomial (m x n pixels) |
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Noise Reduction: Median, Boxcar (all m x n pixels) |
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Noise Reduction: Clip High, Clip Low |
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Image Set Cleaning for automated statistical removal of cosmic rays |
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Noise Reduction: Cosmic Ray filter (various options) |
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Rank Filters: Median, Minimum Value |
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Rank Filters: Maximum value, Percentile Rank |
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Operator Kernels: Rotational Gradient, DDP |
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Operator Kernels: Compass Gradient, Laplacian (various types) |
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Advanced interactive pixel repair |
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Express Calibration (apply bias, dark, and flat field corrections to
an image set using existing calibration frames) |
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Master Bias Frame Creation command |
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Master Dark Frame Creation command |
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Master Flat Frame Creation command |
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Image Calibration pipeline: create and apply bias corrections (bias
value, bias frame, reference bias) |
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Image Calibration pipeline: apply under-scan and over-scan bias
corrections, mean and median over-scan, polynomial fitting, or erase
line removal.
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Image Calibration pipeline: create and apply dark corrections (dark
frame, scale by dark exposure time, optimize by statistics), create
or apply a library of master dark frames by exposure time or
temperature. |
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Image Calibration pipeline: create and apply flat field corrections,
create or apply a library of master flats according to filter. |
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Image Calibration pipeline: cosmic ray filtering |
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Image Calibration pipeline: Trim finished images, convert data type |
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Cosmetic repair: blemish masks (columns, rows, regions) |
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Cosmetic repair: pixel mask correction (isolated points) |
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Cosmetic repair: create and edit pixel masks and blemish masks |
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Cosmetic Repair: auto-create pixel masks |
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Supports image processing plug-ins for measurements and processing. |
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Calculate Image Scale from header data |
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Calculate CCD camera gain from images |
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| Calculate CCD readout noise from images |
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Single
cycle or continuous image animation |
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Modify marker and line size, color symbols |
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Single cycle, continuous, and rocking plot animation |
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Configurable histogram binning strategies |
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Image format extensions: ASCII text read and write, formatted or
unformatted |
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Image format extensions: Raw binary read and write |
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Multi-level interactive contour plotting |
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Maximum Entropy de-convolution for image enhancement |
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Multiple 3-D plots from a 2-D image set |
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3-D
dynamic blinking, animation, and rotation |
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3-D Ribbon, Stepped Ribbon, Column, and Simple pixel facets |
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Single cycle, continuous, and rocking plot animation |
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Single
cycle or continuous animation |
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Modify marker and line size, color symbols |
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| Point source fitting and removal for
deleting interfering PSF's. |
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Image Normalization to target statistic or target value |
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Kwee - van Woerden Solver for time of minimum in a data set. |
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Synthetic Image creation using a complete noise model and synthetic
PSF's |
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Program extension language for creating scripts that interact
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File Event Scripting |
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Source Extraction module
for detecting and measuring sources |
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| Live plot scaling and positioning |
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Interactive Polynomial fitting to 1-D plot data
(fits order 1 to 10 and provides plot series and region selection,
point deletion and weighting). |
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Measure point coordinates and intensities |
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Measure angle between two lines and the base angle |
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Measure distance along line between points |
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Measure polygon area, perimeter, and intensity statistics |
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Interactively calibrate linear coordinate scale |
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Operator Kernels: Prewitt gradient, Linear Feature |
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Image Combining: Alpha Clipped Mean, Geometric Mean, Yp Mean |
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Image Combining: Rank clipped mean, Min/max clipped range |
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