Cosmo Desktop vs PlanetEdit

Cosmo Desktop serves the latest NASA astronomy pictures http://apod.nasa.gov/ to your iOS device in a few clicks. You can let you slide and flip through all the pictures in a user-friendly manner. If you would like to use the pictures to be your iOS wallpaper, just export the pictures to your iOS Photo Album first. You can then select the pictures at your iOS settings. All astronomy pictures are courtesy of the NASA Astronomy Pictures of the Day under public domain, or their respective owners. The Cosmo Desktop will always be free and ad-less. Please direct your appreciations to the APOD team by Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html Cosmo Desktop is also available on the Mac App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cosmo-desktop/id553916089?ls=1&mt=12

AstroEdit Planet is a very simple 4in1 app to stack planetary video. It will automatically crop the video and center the planet. It works on video that has planet moving across the view or planet centred in the view. When you open the app, it auto loads a sample Saturn video. Tap Stack button to begin! PlanetEdit integrates the four legacy desktop software into a single delicate mobile app. Traditionally, astronomer has to install 4 different programs to process planetary video. They are (in process sequence): 1. PPIP for cropping video 2. AutoStakkert! for stacking frames 3. Registax for wavelet sharpening 4. Photoshop for RGB alignment and coloring Features: - Open video or image. Accept all format recognised by the Photo app. In addition, it open .ser and .avi files. First, copy them to the Files app. Then tap Open button in PlanetEdit app. Choose Open Files App. Note that to copy avi file to your device, you may have to rename the file extension to .ser. Once copied to device, rename it back to .avi. Tested for avi 3.5Gb and ser 3.5Gb. - Auto crop video and center frame. - Auto set alignment points for stacking. - Lucky stacking slider. - Real time update of stacking result. - Use 2 finger to pinch zoom, 1 finger to drag and 1 finger to long press to compare a frame(best quality). - RGB alignment. - Basic image processing like saturation, bright, contrast and hue. - 5 wavelet layers to extract detail and denoise. - Save edited image to photo. PlnetEdit has been tested for video capture in seestar S30, S50 smart telescope, ZWO camera, refractive telescope 80mm and Dobson 200mm telescope. Email me at ustransit74@gmail.com if you need any assistance. Attached a short planet video file if necessary. Privacy policy and term of use (EULA) is at https://deepskycolor.blogspot.com/2018/12/privacy-policy-for-deep-sky-color-app.html