What's new in XParallax viu 1.2.4
Oct 13, 2018
- Important global improvements.
- Ready for astrometry extended objects
- Ready for astrometry of trails and linear objects
- GAIA DR1 catalog improves astrometric solution
- GAIA DR2 catalog improves astrometric solution
- Minor bugs fixed.
New in XParallax viu 1.1.7 (Sep 8, 2015)
- BND header in MPC reports.
- Export blink animation as html code.
New in XParallax viu 1.1.6 (Sep 4, 2015)
- Blink dialog. Save GIF sequence.
New in XParallax viu 1.1.5 (Aug 28, 2015)
- Important global improvements.
- Minor Planet Center reports.
- Astrometric alignemet improved.
- Mesh in blink dialog.
- File association.
- Migrated to Qt 5.4.
- Improved RA and DEC detection from image headers.
- Find box in fit headers dialog.
- Web request cache.
- Minor bugs fixed.
New in XParallax viu 1.1.4 (Dec 8, 2014)
- Improved astrometry algorithm. Robust align detection.
- New Image Analysis tool; Image catalog allows to create catalogs and flux tables.
- Context menu in image window.
- High declination mesh drawing.
- Migrating to vectorial icons.
- Minor bugs fixed.
New in XParallax viu 1.1.3 (Nov 4, 2014)
- Batch header editing
- New options in fit headers dialog.
- Position angle in distance tool.
- Open files with special chars in path. Bug fixed.
- Additional WCS headers recognition.
- Fixed image stretching in 32 bits floating point images.
- Detection close to the image edges improved.
- Calibration cancelling.
- Minor bugs fixed.
New in XParallax viu 1.1.2 (Sep 1, 2014)
- Invalid headers generated by Maxim DL recognition.
- Windows configuration directory changed to AppData/Local/XParallaxVIU.
- Some developer's file-headers removed. They're not useful for final users.
- Minor bugs fixed.
New in XParallax viu 1.1.1 (Sep 1, 2014)
- Automatic stretch improved.
- Save fit as png image.
- Save fit as jpeg image.
- Export current view utility
- Faster image opening.
- Faster real-time histogram computing in the histogram window.
New in XParallax viu 1.1.0 (Aug 12, 2014)
- Bug fixed. No BZERO header present.
- More date formats to parse in fit header.
- Precise date/time from fit header. Start,Mid,End keywords processing in date headers.
- Bigger icons in user interface
- Tools. Stretch and contrast
- Tools. Locate point tool
- Tools. Distance tool
- Tools. Linear profile tool
New in XParallax viu 1.0.9 (Jul 3, 2014)
- Added center selection option.
- PSF bright based fitting center.
- Fixed bug for detection on borders when center is outside the image area.
New in XParallax viu 1.0.8 (Jun 17, 2014)
- Direct plate scale in astrometric dialog.
- CROTA1,CROTA2 wcs header recognition. Used by Astrometrica.
- Reading 8bit per pixel image bug fixed.
- Improved star detection around plate borders.
- Infrared 2MASS catalog added.
New in XParallax viu 1.0.6 (May 29, 2014)
- USNO-B1.0 Catalog.
- GSC 2.3.2 Catalog.
- Improved Declination parsing.
- Added a single quotation mark in some WCS headers. Sextractor needs this marks to detect the astrometric reduction.
- Play sequence in the image blink screen.
- Download Minor Planet Center known objects inside the image field.
- Compiled with vectorization/parallelization in msvc 64 bits version. Faster calibration, faster astrometry, faster image drawing on screen.
New in XParallax viu 1.0.5 (May 16, 2014)
- Image blinking.
- Faster and better astrometic reduction.
- Improved align algorithm for astrometric reduction.
- Some user interface improvements.
New in XParallax viu 1.0.4 (May 8, 2014)
- Required 4 star matches for astrometry.
- Improved star align.
- Better astrometry with low SN images.
- Improved RA-DEC mesh painting.
New in XParallax viu 1.0.3 (Apr 14, 2014)
- Improved layers. More interactive, more information...
- DPI awareness in sessame/search dialog.
- Translation review of some strings.
- Start/Middle/End of exposure detection. Not relevant for astrometry but may be used in the future.
New in XParallax viu 1.0.2 (Mar 28, 2014)
- DPI aware interface.
- Fit headers edition improved.
- Adapting interface to Linux and Mac.
- Adapting core to work on Linux and Mac.
New in XParallax viu 1.0.1 (Feb 6, 2014)
- Support to load sbig file format.
- Support to load jpeg, png, tiff, bmp and gif files.
- Improved performance when a very large (more than 50MB) image is loaded.
- Improved fit header editing.
- Saturated and invalid pixels management. Now, invalid pixels are used in astrometry to calculate star field density.
- Astrometry overlay is shown with final gnomonic projection.
- Hot and cold pixels correction.
- Minor bugs fixed.