LYNKEOS(1)

✨ LYNKEOS(1) — the GNUstep manual page, but make it bestie-approved 🦋

🌸 NAME

Okay so Lynkeos is literally an application for processing of astronomical images 🔭✨ It's giving telescope girl, and I'm obsessed.

🔮 SYNOPSIS

Lynkeos [options] [file]

💖 DESCRIPTION

Okay bestie, Lynkeos is the program dedicated to processing astronomical images 🪐 (mainly planetary ones!) that you snap with a webcam through a telescope 📸 It can import images and movies in various formats, and then the images get stacked and run through different algorithms to make the final result look so much sharper. Literal glow-up 💅

Lynkeos is optimized for multi-processor and multi-core machines 🧚 It really said "give me all the cores" and I respect it.

🎀 OPTIONS

No options are supported apart from the global GNUstep --GNU-Debug option 🙈 And if you do pass a file, it has to be a Lynkeos Project file: an Apple binary property list with a .seq extension. No cap, that's the rule 🫶

Lynkeos is fully configurable from its GUI, so you can literally click your way to a perfect setup 🌈 The only setting that's hidden from users is the one for debugging inter-thread communication. You set that with the defaults(1) tool:

defaults write net.sourceforge.lynkeos ThreadConnectionDebug n

Where n is a number for the debug level 🔥:

• 1 — debug messages related to the queue
• 2 — full debugging, which is more verbose (bestie, it's a lot 💀)

🚨 BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

⚠️ Heads up, this one's serious! Because Lynkeos does all of its image processing in secondary threads, it only works with the default cairo GNUstep backend. Certain functionality is disabled or just doesn't work properly, thanks to incomplete GNUstep implementations of the Cocoa API or differences in behavior 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO

Comprehensive online help, if you want to go down the rabbit hole 🦋

http://lynkeos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Help:Contents

Online tutorial, for when you're ready to actually start 🧚

http://lynkeos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Help:Tutorial

👑 AUTHORS

Lynkeos was written by Jean-Etienne Lamiaud, the real MVP 💜

This manual page was written by Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org> 🎀

💅 COPYING

© 2018-2025 Debian GNUstep maintainers 🌸

This manual page is distributed under the same license as the Lynkeos program, so you're free to share the glow 🫶

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Bye bestie, this was GNUstep, March 2025 edition, LYNKEOS(1) in full effect 🌸💖 Stay sparkly, stay curious, and go catch some planets ✨🪐