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

[steve banbury <banburys@sonic.net>]

Juan--I'd like to post a sincere "Thanks" to you for developing and sharing SGBNR
with us on APML.

Your idea of providing SGBNR free due to your love of astrophotography and
programming is a refreshing
contrast to numerous occasions here on APML when the posts have gone on for days
about how to set a "fair"
price on the photos taken in the pursuit of our hobby.

Many thanks!!
Steve Banbury

Juan Conejero wrote:

> 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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