Major performance release — Imaging Intelligence features, PixInsight AutoIntegrate
stacking with RC Astro tool detection, tier-driven stacking advisor, and native XISF support.
New Features
- New PixInsight AutoIntegrate stacking — one-click auto-stack directly from Autopilot with RC Astro tool detection (BlurXTerminator, StarXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator) and built-in default settings
- New Tier-driven Stacking Advisor — 3 presets (Default Stack, Deep Stack, Sharp Focus) with filter balancing for canonical compositions (LRGB, SHO, HOO, RGB)
- New Performance Insights — hero insights with equipment rankings, correlation-based analysis, session intelligence, and filter-aware recommendations in the QA tab
- New Gallery Archive Overview — sidebar with Quick Archive Stats, Sky Coverage, Equipment Usage, Best Nights, Most Revisited Targets, and Seasonal Seeing
- New Native XISF support — built-in XISF encoder/decoder with no external dependencies
- New Companion Monitor v2.1 — full dashboard refresh with app launcher and real-time QA pipeline monitoring
- New QE Curve filter overlays — visualize filter bandpass overlays on sensor quantum efficiency curves with SPCC sensor QE import
- New Expanded frame type classification — 70+ IMAGETYP variants including SNAPSHOT, FOCUS, PREVIEW, STD, and all major software conventions