Re: [APML] SGBNR [was: M42 smoothed]

[Juan Conejero <skycad@ctv.es>]

Hi Matt,

Indeed SGBNR is free. Since we love both astrophotography and programming, 
we really enjoy very much writing software like SGBNR. This program 
originated as (and it still is) a simple experimental tool. At its first 
developmental stages SGBNR simply implemented some procedures that we were 
doing manually in Photoshop for some time. Then we had one of our brightest 
programming ideas: sharing this work with the APML. The suggestions, help 
and enthusiasm we received from the people of the APML were so clever and 
kind, that simply knowing that our software can be somewhat useful is more 
than rewarding for us. We hope we'll be able to further develop SGBNR 
having the invaluable collaboration of the APML. Finishing our new house 
and moving to it is filling all our free time now (no AP since May, ouch!), 
but I think next version of SGBNR will be available for public release in 
February, including lots of great suggestions and bug fixes from users 
worldwide. We hope also to be able to write (with some help!) a 
comprehensive users manual.

So we are not trying to market SGBNR in any way. We do have other software 
projects in mind and maybe they will become commercial ones, but not SGBNR.

Best regards,
______________________________________
Juan Conejero, Pleiades Astrophoto
skycad@ctv.es
http://www.pleiades-astrophoto.com/en.html

At 18:31 17/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Joe,
>
>I think it's free. I still haven't figured out why Pleiades have gone to 
>such lengths to build and market the software. Maybe they intend to set a 
>price once it's established.
>
>Matt
>
>At 03:30 PM 11/17/2002 -0500, Leslie/Joe Schaefer wrote:
> >Hi Grant,
> > I have been reading and seeing some good things about SGBNR from Pleiades
> >Astrophoto. I went to there web
> >site to order the software but was unable to locate a price for it. I found
> >the download files and it almost looks like freeware?
> > Does Pleiades Astrophoto charge for there grain reducing software? and if
> >so how much does it cost?
> >Thanks, Joe Schaefer
> >www.starfillednights.com



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