New in Version 1.3
Summary
- Pinch zooming is now supported.
- Zoom level is displayed as a percentage, and can be typed in.
- Display update for almost all tasks is much faster, especially for MacOS 10.14 (Mojave) and later.
- Composition is more than 2x faster than version 1.2. Alignment is faster than version 1.2.
- Improved alignment where there are few stars to align (e.g., corners with vignetting).
- Changing images (with next/prev and arrow buttons) can be slightly slower. (This is a trade off with faster drawing in general).
- Minor bugs fixes and UI improvements.
Details
The display of the image is managed completely differently from earlier versions. This makes almost everything much faster and more convenient. In particular, zooming and scrolling are really fast. The only negative is that it usually takes slightly longer to step through the images with the next and prev buttons. On my 2015 iMac it takes less than 1 sec to switch between 50Mpixel images, so this is not too bad. Also, a small border of grey has been added to the image. This helps to make it clear when you are at the edge of the image.
The zoom level is displayed as a percentage, and it is possible to type in a zoom level—click on the displayed zoom level to type in. The zoom level that you step through with ⌘- and ⌘+ have been changed to provide more options and provide overlap with popular applications such as Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Lightroom and Preview (no two of which support a matching set of zoom levels).
Version 1.3.1
Version 1.3.1 was released April 10, 2019Summary
- Fixed an error that would cause a failure to align under certain combinations of lens focal length, sensor physical size and sensor pixel count. Failure was very likely with a telescope and a crop frame sensor.
- Added a check box at the bottom of the open panel that overrides any lens information in the EXIF data. This is useful to telescope users in two cases:
- you are using a smart phone or some other camera that always puts a focal length in the EXIF data with a telescope
- if you always use a telescope and are tired of typing "1000" into the pop-up dialog that asks for lens focal length