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BF-Astro Freeware

 

  • PicFix uses the CCDSoft routines to repair columns or pixels in selected files or an entire folder. 

  • ezSkyView provides an easier user interface for NASA's SkyView Query Form (SQF), to create images of astronomical objects or specific portions of the sky. This allows the astrophotographer to quickly see, in advance, how an intended target will look on his computer screen. Another use is for creating images to include in your planetarium program, such as TheSky6.

  • eXcalibrator calibrates image color by using the NOMAD1 or SDSS database to identify stars in your image that should be white.  The program then computes the correction factors to apply to the green and blue channels.