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The Development of AstroEdit Planet 2.0

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041126 To speed up, I am working on biplane. it can score and track center for 130 frames in 6 seconds. It is fun.  031126 It takes only 10 seconds for 10 frames on MacBook but takes 40 seconds on my iPhone. With the GPU fasten, it is still about 40 seconds on my iPhone 12 mini.  I need to use astroplanet method to open and do frame score. it will reduce to 20 seconds. My ap is top left in astroplanet but bottom left in surface app. Do astroplanet open video first time for score. Second time for stacking? Should I remove vision and use accumulative best ap matching? Should I remove mtltexture and use cifilter reduction?  021126 I am doing 1 second for 1 frame for a 1/4 texture matching.  1. The problem for max ap movement of 12px is due to using texture that is bottom left vs ap that is top left. Change ap to bottom left solves the problem. AI could not find the cause. It is when I read the code from the beginning that has texture. is texture also bottom left? yes. 2...
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AI.CometStack Manual

Introduction This app is designed for simplicity and ease of use. This guide will help you understand all features and workflows quickly. AICometStack cuts comet stacking from two hours on your desktop down to just ten minutes on your phone. Menu Options Files : Tap this button to select your FITS files (.fit and fits) in your File app. First, you will have to copy these individual files from your SeeStar/Dwarf to your phone Download folder. Photos : Tap this button to select your image files (jpeg, tiff, png etc.) in your Photos app. First, you will have to copy these individual files from your SeeStar/Dwarf to your phone Photos. Note: The reference image is the first file/image you select. Samples : Tap this button to start stacking sample files in the app. Help : Tap the Question icon to access this user guide. Tap the  Back  button at the top of the screen to exit the user guide. Save : During the stacking, this button saves your current stack by star, stack by c...
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AstroEdit For Android Manual

This app was created to be easy to use. This guide was written to be easy to understand. --- Top Menu --- Open: Tap leftmost icon in the top menu and select an image to process. The image is automatically loaded into Starless, Star and Both(Combine Starless and Star) images. Tweak the Starless image, then the Star image and finally the Both image.  Note: Long press the open icon to open FITS file. To preview thumbnail for FITS file: 1. In Files app, create a subfolder in your Download folder and move all your FITS files to the subfolder. 2. Goto AstroEdit app > Tap Help > Tap Set Folder Access. Select the subfolder you have created and tap "Use this folder". 3. Tap Back and long press Open button. 4. Tap the menu button (3 horizontal lines) at top left. 5. Select AstroEdit and all FITS files will have a thumbnail.  Crop: Tap to select an rectange. And tap again (Apply) to crop.  Save your image : Once you're happy with your edits, tap the down arrow box i...
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