PGMania. Astrophotography image and video processor
In this manual, you will find out what PGMania was made for, what technologies it uses, how PGMania processes astrophotos, how it differs from other programs, its features and benefits. There are many of these differences. First of all, these are alternative approaches to image calibration. Secondly, PGMania provides many times more opportunities for image alignment, stacking and post-processing.And, as a result, in PGMania we get much better results for all processing cycles of deep sky images. In addition, the program has a user-friendly interface, all operations are carried out through intuitive options in the menu where no excessive number of tables, icons and windows. Everything is simple and clear.
About this software
PGMania - all in one astrophotography package for processing deep sky images. It provides wide and unique functionality, a powerful and flexible tool with a clear and convenient interface for astrophotography image processing. The program is constantly evolving. Each new version adds new functionality that is relevant for astro photographers. Known bugs are quickly eliminated.
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Yandex.diskYouTube channelPurchase a license or make a donationFacebook group Help and documentationHome siteScreenshots of image processingWeb service for FTP and IP camera Processing astrophotography in PGMania
The process of obtaining astrophotography is well studied and has widespread application. The technologies have been worked out well enough and allow you to get sustainable results. As in any direction of technological progress, technology in astrophotography also does not stand still. It's not just telescopes that allow hobbyists to increase their apertures and penetrate deeper space. Not just computers that offer ever greater performance, and not just astronomy cameras that allow more details to be pulled out of total darkness. The point is in the approaches and technologies for processing the obtained images. Let's talk about one of these technologies.
The program performs all processing cycles, including alignment, calibration, stacking, post-processing images, does many secondary operations and much more. PGMania began in 2015 from inventing an alternative technology for deep-sky image calibration. With this technology there is no need for a bunch of additional technical images and their derivatives as dark, dark flat, bias, etc. Forget about it and sleep well. The program will do everything itself in the best possible way only from what your telescope and camera have seen in the sky.
With PGMania at the output, we get a clean signal, without hot pixels and noise. All you need to calibrate the pair of lights is pair of lights. Computer processing of images in the style - this pixel we paint over, another we smear, and this we smudge is not performed. Everything happens thanks to mathematics and the laws of physics, as in nature. For this reason, PGMania is environmentally friendly - it doesn't litter your photos with things that were never been there. A processor with a magnifier will not crawl through your pictures blurring hot pixels, hiding satellites and cosmic rays. They will dissolve on their own like bubbles in water. When the water has calmed down, and background will become a mirror you will see the essence.
This is how it works in PGMania
- Darks and Bias are not used. But they can be used, if you wish. There is no need for them and, moreover, they only interfere with the pure signal.
- At the output, an increase in signal / noise ratio is obtained already at the calibration stage, and not at the addition stage.
- Calibration does not introduce new noise into the original image and does not distort the image by extrapolation.
- There is no need for a bunch of additional technical images, such as dark, bias, and their derivatives.
And you will get
- Opportunities and needs to think about what, how and what for you are doing that
- Full control over the processes of images alignment, calibration, stacking and post-processing
- Saving time in the absence of the need to capture additional images and their processing
- Better and more clear final results
- Flexible processing options
- Increased image resolution and signal-to-noise ratio as a result
All this is accompanied by a very long list of available features and options detailed step-by-step documentation with tons of examples and descriptions
PGMania provides only tools and opportunities. This is the machine. It doesn't generate masterpieces on the fly. It all depends on the footage, on the skills and processing labor. Using the program may seem tricky at first. Having mastered it, you just can't do else without it. The program is constantly evolving. Each new version adds new functionality that is relevant for astrophotography's. Known bugs are quickly eliminated..
Licences
Trial period for demo version limited to 30 days.
For using PGMania after trial expires you should to register your PGMania instance.
PGMania distributes under 3 available licence types:
Using on 1 PC...............................................from 30$
Using on 2 PC...............................................from 50$
Using on any PC amount...............................from 70$
For questions please contact the author at pgmania@yandex.ru
Enjoy it.
The author
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PGMania is completely unique and uses only own algorithms for processing astronomical images.
The program develop by one person, on his own initiative and at own expense. All code is self-written, without involving third-party developers.
The best way to support the author and the program is to buy PGMania licence and use legally. Register your copy of the program as a first step.
You can support the project by making donate via PayPal or other services. This will help product to develop. The amount can be any, we appreciate your contribution.
Also, looking for ongoing sponsors for long-term cooperation.Installation and requirements
Download and unpack archive, create shortcut for PGmania.exe and place it to desktop.
PGMania operates on base of multithreaded, asincronous, parallel and distributed processing.
You can start so many instances of PGMania at one time how many your processor have cores and how hard it may works.
We recommend to use maximum amount of operative memory. Min is 4Gb. Sometimes PGMania uses web based services for processing.
So you should have alive Internet connection for several operations.
PGMania require .Net 4.8 runtime been installed https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet/tree/master/releases/net48
OS Win 7/8/10/11. Any CPU.
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