Siril:0.9 alpha

Siril 0.9 alpha

The alpha version is the name of the version currently being developed. It is not released as a package and can only be obtained from the subversion repository linked in the main page. The first release will be 0.9 beta.

This version is developed and tested on Linux Mint 15, Debian 7 and Arch Linux. See the installation page for help on dependencies and compilation.

What's new in Siril 0.9 alpha

Siril 0.9 alpha is the new version (2013-2014) of Siril. It is a massive upgrade of the previous 0.8 version of 2006 (old website). Many things have changed since then, including:

• new development team and website
• many new image formats supported for import (converted to Siril's FITS: 8-bit and 16-bit BMP, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, NetPBM binary images, PIC (IRIS), RAW DSLR images and loaded natively: SER files and any film with AVI extension) and export
• better image sequence handling, with non-contiguous sequences, but still requiring file names to be postfixed by integers (like: image001.fit and not image001L.fit)
• new graphical user interface based on GTK+ version 3.4 and above, and in general, update of dependencies to latest versions
• new display modes added to the standard linear scaling with lo/hi bounds: log, asinh, sqr, sqrt, histeq, negative, false colors
• manual translation as new registration method with two preview renderings of the current image with reference frame in transparency
• automatic translation as new registration method for deep-sky images, based on the FWHM analysis of one star instead of DFT, more suited for planetary images
• new commands available for the command line, see the list of available commands
• a star finding algorithm with PSF information
• new processing functions: unsharp mask, background extraction, green dominance removal, new method for background equalization, and two-way Fourier transform used to remove annoying patterns in images
• numerous bugs fixed and internal code refactoring for a better extensibility