DeepFrame
Plan your Deep Sky Imaging
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What's New in DeepFrame
2.26.0
September 20, 2026
eepFrame has had a long run of releases since the last one on the store. The headlines: YOUR IMAGING, ON THE SKY AND IN YOUR HAND • Your own processed shots are now drawn on the chart, on their own cutout icon, at the exact field of view they were shot at — and they zoom with the sky, not against it. • Browse your whole imaging database on the phone: a searchable, sortable, groupable list of every object, with each night's session underneath — date, scope, camera, filters, exposure and a thumbnail per night. Tap a picture to see it full-size; tap an object's name to jump straight to it on the sky. • Every object and every night now says how far it got: finished, captured-but-not-processed, or stacked-but-no-result-yet — with a filter to show only what you've completed. A FASTER, TRUER SKY • The all-sky survey photo is now drawn on the GPU as a cube map — it appears instantly instead of the old half-second freeze on every reframe, and you can zoom in to 16×. • Positions are now correct to the arcminute: catalogue coordinates are precessed to the night's epoch (about 22′), the Moon is topocentric (up to ~1°), and the whole sky is drawn for the true middle of the night rather than wall-clock midnight (about an hour's difference). • The imageable window is now the longest unbroken run above 25°, so a circumpolar object that dips low is no longer reported as up all night. • The observing day rolls over at local noon, so after midnight the app shows the night you're standing in. A CHART THAT DOES WHAT YOUR HAND ASKS • Stepping the time capsule now moves the whole sky — every object, star and planet — not just the clock. • A tap selects and nothing else; centring an object is a deliberate double-tap or a long-press on its card. • Pinch anywhere to zoom, even with an object's card open. • Object names you can actually read, and the meridian drawn across the whole sky. Plus: the rig list is built from your real equipment (telescopes and camera lenses), your recent searches come back as chips, and dozens of smaller fixes.
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