New "Open File" dialog with fast preview of the image and the header. Opening and saving of PNG 8,16,24,48 bits, PNG-FITS (PNG with FITS header stored inside). TIFF 32 and 48 bits. AVI. JPEG optimizer in realtime.
All DSLR RAW files supported, also in Preprocessing.
 

"All stars" algorithm which automatically aligns two images selecting the best stars, and "Star pattern" to align images which are also rotated.
 

High pass, Low pass (standard, adaptive and FFT) with range option to improve the signal to noise ratio. Iterative histogram scaling. Deconvolution with range to reduce noise over the background.
Deblooming filter. New DDP. Hot pixel removal, also with care for Bayer patterns (color CCDs). Defect Map to correct hot and cold pixels.
 

New Blink command with autoalignment and visualization tuning in realtime. More customizable and faster star finder.
Star atlas with support of UCAC2 and USNOB. (USNOB with fast download in background). Proper motion of stars. Asteroids and comets displayed in realtime (MPCORB startup time is only 2 seconds on a 1 Ghz PC).

New CCD color synthesis: automatic white balance, hot pixel removal, Bayer pattern assistant, improved algorithm for CMY and RGB cameras (MX5C, MX7C, SXV-H9C, SXV-H8C, SBIG, DSI I/II, DSLRs). New trichromy with realtime preview, white balance and autoalignment of color planes.
 

Quick astrometric and photometric reduction thanks to automatic star match with the atlas. Realtime selection of residuals. Growth curves. Aperture photometry with three circles (signal, gap, background) and autocenter option. Settings for gain and readout noise of the CCD.
 

Median and Sigma of a group of images. Options of resize, crop, autoalignment "All stars", hot pixel removal, defect map, deblooming. Tracking of minor planets calculating the proper motion. "Missing borders correction" to prevent dark borders. Drizzle 200% to enhance the resolution of undersampled images. New manual alignment. All functions work also on color CCDs.
 

Mouse wheel supported to tune the visualization and zoom in realtime. New 3D window. "Formula" command to apply any math function to the image. Dockable toolbars. "Close all" and "Crop" commands. Full screen view with pan, zoom and visualization tuning. Many speed optimizations.