Includes

ImageJ 1.54s and Java 26

General

• Update to Java 26.

New Features

• Meridian flip time can optionally be automatically set due to a change in value in a measurements table column. For example, the Aperture Settings Panel can be set to extract the fits header PIERSIDE keyword value and place it in a measurements table column. Then the PIERSIDE measurements table column can be selected as the associated meridian flip indicator. The time associated with the first change in PIERSIDE value from EAST to WEST will be automatically set as the meridian flip time. In this mode the user does not need to manually determine and enter the meridian flip time.
• New multi-threaded FITS file opening cuts image sequence open time by ~50%.
• Additional speed-up of FITS file opening.
• Added options to open AIJ Preferences, Configuration, and Log files to the AIJ Toolbar Help menu.
• Added a link to the new AIJ website in AIJ Toolbar Help menu.
• Added a progress monitor for Multi-HDU FITS file opening (e.g. FITS image cube opening).
• Added support for European formatted decimal points (comma instead of period) when opening FITS header values. (Github Isssue 86)
• Renamed the two Debayer options in Stack Display > Color to better indicate the different functionalities and to indicate which is the legacy module.
• Added two new options to the Multi-Aperture Setup panel that allow the Programmable Title and Programmable Subtitle options to be forced to the Enabled state in the Multi-plot Main panel.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the Add Data panel to sometimes close and not reopen at the end of a Multi-Aperture Run.
• Fixed poor/slow scrolling performance in the Stack Window display.
• Fixed Y-data panel showing wrong column names during comp star optimization runs.
• Fixed NPE in programmable plot titling.

Other

• Added Fused Multiply Add (FMA) support to photometer (speeds up photometry in some cases).