About Lynkeos
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
- This release add tools to correct the chromatic dispersion and tune the color balance of the resulting image ; it also fixes some bugs.
- You only need to download the application to start using it. If you intend to work on FITS files, you need to install the CFITSIO package ; for using AVI or MPEG sequences, install the FFmpeg package.