User manual

thousands of view can be created (see 6.5 – thumbnails creations). Only the views that

are visible make use of random access memory (RAM).

Allocations of the views

The allocation of an image to a view is done by drag and drop of the respective plane

logo onto the selected panel. It is also possible to create, as many views as there are

images in the stack by using the menu “View => Create one view per image".

Tip: It is possible to drag and drop a JPEG, PNG, GIF, FITS image from your working

environment (Windows desk, Linux Desktop, …) and/or from your web browser with a

particular view.

Current view

The current view, i.e. the one on which zoom functions will operate, is framed with a

blue contour. One can click on a view in order to select it as the current view. By keeping

the Shift key pressed, it is possible to select several view simultaneously, for example

this can be used to select images that will be deleted.

It is possible to see the current view (blue frame) in “monoview” by switching back to a

single panel. The other views will not be deleted and will remain accessible either

through the vertical scroll bar on the right of the window, or by switching back to a

multiview mode. The current mode can also be seen in full screen (menu “View => Full

screen”) or in simple window mode (menu “View => simple window”) – see below.

Matching the views

Icon: match

Menu: Edit => Match…

Short key: Alt+S, Alt+Q

Within the multiview mode, it is possible to match the scale, and even the orientation, of

different images sampling the same region in the sky. These functions are accessible via

the menu “View => Match scales” and “View => Match scales and orientation” respectively.

For the second case, the “match” button can also be used. Matching scales does not

affect pixels, it only select automatically the closest centre and zoom factor in order to

visualise the same region of the sky. This is not the case when matching both scales and

orientation since it re-projects images using the location of the 4 corners of the image: