AutoIntegrate 1.56.1 - Spectrophotometric Color Calibration, GUI updates

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Changes in AutoIntegrate 1.56.1:

  • SpectrophotometricColorCalibration (SPCC) support
    • NOTE! Using SPCC will clear the dialog window. Everything still runs fine. This is a problem in the SPCC process.
    • Added a new option “Color calibration using SPCC”. It will try to plate solve the RGB image and use SPCC for color calibration.
    • Plate solving is saved into the Integration_RGB image.
    • Some configuration options are available for SPCC.
  • Image solving in the script
    • Added a new section Image solver in the Processing tab.
    • Target coordinates can be given or searched using an online database (Sesame) if the image does not have coordinates embedded.
    • Added option to set focal length. If the image does not have focal length setting in the metadata then it must be given here. If focal length is totally wrong, image solving will fail.
  • GUI updates
    • Default preview size is limited to max 400 x 400 pixels. Size can be adjusted in the Interface settings section. Idea is to keep the default preview size small enough that the dialog would fit in to the screen.
  • Fix to Drizzle crop bug where Crop to common area cropped too little when Drizzle was used.
  • Smoothen background
    • New option “Smoothen background %” to smoothen the background. Can be useful with “Use ABE on stretched images” to help ABE to clean up the background on images with very uneven background.
  • New option Use ABE on stretched images to run ABE after the image was stretched.
  • Removed deringing from HDRMultiscaleTransform. It works better without deringing.
  • Fix to narrowband linear fit with Histogram stretch. AutoSTF and Histogram do unlinked stretch for narrowband so linear fit is not used by default.
  • BlurXTerminator is run before stars are removed if Remove stars before stretch is selected.
  • Noise reduction settings
    • All different noise reduction options are now under the noise reduction section in the processing tab. Skip noise reduction checkbox is still in the Image processing parameters section.
    • Added a new Channel noise reduction option. It was and is the default but now there is an explicit option for that.
    • General clarification in the code for noise reduction options.
  • Added a new Processing tab in the dialog. Many sections for processing options have been grouped into the new Processing tab.