One continuous workflow
Calibrate, stack, solve, restore, colour and finish without moving between disconnected applications.
Arriving 25 September 2026
SyQon Studio
One studio. Every photon. Free.
From raw sky data to the final image, in one native workspace.
* Professional neural models are available separately and are entirely optional.
SyQon Studio 1.0
One native environment. No hand-offs.
Local AIFloat64Non-destructive
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One continuous workflow
Raw frames to final image
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Local neural inference
Pixels stay on your workstation
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Scientific foundations
WCS, Gaia XP and precision data
Everything becomes one
Astrophotography should feel like a creative flow. Not a chain of utilities.
SyQon Studio brings the complete image journey into one coherent environment—from calibrated frames to a layered, colour-managed final image.
Edit without fear
Layers, masks, previews, undo history and the SYQ Timeline keep every important decision visible and reversible.
AI that stays local
SyQon neural models run on your machine. Your astronomical images are not uploaded for inference.
Native image lab
Your image. Still yours at every step.
Build with layers. Protect with masks. Compare before and after. Move backwards through time without flattening your thinking.
SYQ Timeline
A visible processing graph that records the path from source to present.
Masks that belong to the workflow
Gradient, radial, brush, star and luminance-aware protection in context.
True layered composition
Opacity, blending, groups and reusable derived layers without losing the original.
The complete image lab
Twelve disciplines. One visual language.
Every stage lives inside the same document system. You can move from measurement to creative finishing without exporting intermediate files or rebuilding context in another application.
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Calibration masters
Bias, dark, flat and dark-flat workflows with reusable masters and traceable acquisition groups.
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Subframe analysis
Inspect FWHM, eccentricity, background, noise, quality, star count and integration weight before stacking.
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Registration & stacking
Robust star registration, rejection, drizzle, weighted integration and resumable processing sessions.
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Mosaic Studio
Global overlap optimisation, common geometry, multi-panel integration and coverage-aware final canvases.
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Local plate solving
ASTAP solving and WCS metadata work locally with managed high-density astronomical catalogues.
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Scientific colour
Gaia XP spectrophotometric calibration, channel composition and colour-managed display and export.
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Layered image lab
Pixel, component, channel and mask layers with groups, opacity, blending and independent visibility.
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Precision masks
Brush, gradient, radial, range, luminance and star masks designed directly over the image.
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Processing components
A coherent catalogue for stretch, colour, restoration, gradients, structure, stars and finishing.
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Recoverable history
Undo, comparison states and the SYQ graph preserve intent while you explore alternative processing paths.
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Faithful output
Scientific linear data or presentation-ready imagery with ICC-aware sRGB conversion and controlled dithering.
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Managed delivery
The application, neural weights and catalogues update independently, securely and only when required.
Stacking Studio
From every exposure.
One measurable master.
A complete scientific preprocessing and integration environment for single-filter sessions, multi-band acquisitions, wide-field mosaics and moving targets.
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Organise acquisitions
Build classic, multi-acquisition or mosaic sessions. Keep lights and calibration data separated by acquisition and filter.
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Calibrate at source precision
Generate bias, dark, flat and dark-flat masters; optimise dark scaling; correct pedestals, overscan and defective pixels.
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Measure every subframe
Analyse stellar FWHM, eccentricity, noise, background, detected stars and relative quality before committing to integration.
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Register real geometry
Use robust multiscale alignment or blind SIFT/RANSAC projective registration for rotation, scale and perspective differences.
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Normalise & reject
Match local backgrounds and optional local photometric gain, then reject outliers with the statistical model appropriate to the dataset.
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Integrate & publish
Produce the master, coverage and rejection maps together with a complete JSON processing manifest and diagnostic report.
Integration laboratory
Rejection shaped around the data—not a single black box.
01Studentized sigma clipping
02Winsorized sigma clamp
03Linear-fit clipping
04Generalized ESD
05Percentile clipping
06Min / max rejection
07Large-scale rejection
08Weighted mean
Choose point-source SNR, stellar signal / PSF or inverse-noise-variance weighting. Low and high thresholds remain explicit, reviewable parameters.
Drizzle engine
6×maximum sampling
Native, 2×, 4× and 6× output sampling with controllable pixel fraction. Point drops remain available for densely dithered data.
CFA drizzle
Integrates real Bayer sensor samples without pre-integration interpolation
Coverage-aware
Tracks effective sample support and exposes uneven or missing coverage
No hidden denoise
Sampling changes remain separate from restoration and finishing
Subframe diagnostics
Decide with evidence before integration begins.
Analyse the complete session, review the diagnostic grid and plot, disable weak frames or define objective quality limits. The final weight and status remain visible and exportable.
FWHM
Stellar profile width
Eccentricity
Shape and tracking quality
Noise
Measured background variation
Background
Frame sky level
Stars
Detected registration sources
Weight
Final integration contribution
Mosaic Studio
Plan the whole sky before integrating a single panel.
All filters share one planned canvas, origin and sampling. Every matchable overlap contributes to global geometry optimisation while the selected reference remains fixed.
- Automatic reference WCS, TAN, SIN and ARC celestial projections
- Robust global optimisation across panel overlaps
- Local background and constrained photometric gain normalisation
- Configurable overlap feathering and optional distortion correction
- Disconnected panels stop publication instead of inventing geometry
- Uncovered sky remains NaN with zero coverage—never synthetic signal
Verified checkpoints
Retain decoded frames and completed tiles, then resume a saved session after restarting Studio.
Memory-aware execution
Choose the working-memory budget; large integrations stream data and stop cleanly when the plan cannot fit.
Publish with provenance
Save Float64 linear masters, coverage and rejection maps, mosaic geometry and a versioned processing manifest.
Neural instruments
The SyQon ecosystem, working as one instrument.
No scripts to move, no environments to maintain. Professional neural models* become native tools inside the same workspace and run locally through the integrated inference engine.
Local inference
Star separation
Axiom V3
A clean structural split for independent stellar and deep-sky processing.
Local inference
Neural restoration
Prism Deep
Adaptive restoration profiles from Essential to workstation-grade Max.
Local inference
Deconvolution
Parallax
Recover compact structure and correct optical softness through local inference.
Local inference
Gradient removal
Deep Gradient
Model-assisted background correction for complex wide-field illumination.
* Pro neural models are paid, optional add-ons. They are not required to use SyQon Studio.
From photons to image
A complete path, built in.
01
Calibrate
Bias, dark and flat masters, cosmetic correction and camera-aware preprocessing.
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Register & stack
Quality analysis, robust alignment, rejection, drizzle and resumable integration.
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Solve & colour
Local astrometry, Gaia XP colour calibration and WCS-aware tools.
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Restore
Neural separation, deconvolution, denoising and multiscale structure control.
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Finish & export
Layered colour work, display transforms and faithful scientific or presentation exports.
Scientific core
Creative freedom, built on measurable sky.
Studio treats astrometry, spectral references, acquisition provenance and image geometry as part of the image—not as disposable setup steps.
Dense local catalogues
Gaia and ASTAP resources are securely managed outside the application, updated only when their identity changes.
Provenance that survives
Stacking manifests retain accepted frames, rejection, gains, transforms, residuals and processing settings.
Geometry before aesthetics
Coverage, NaN regions, WCS and common mosaic coordinates remain explicit throughout the workflow.
Under the glass
Simple on the surface. Serious underneath.
Studio is designed for visual clarity without hiding the engineering: precision buffers, deterministic processing, hardware-aware inference and recoverable project state.
Data foundation
Precision from the first sample
- Float64 internal image buffers
- FITS, native XISF, TIFF, PNG, JPEG and camera RAW
- Negative values, HDR headroom and NaN mosaic coverage
- ICC-aware display and export pipeline
Compute
Native acceleration, automatic fallback
- Core ML CPU/GPU on macOS
- DirectML, CUDA and MIGraphX where available
- Optimised CPU execution through ONNX Runtime
- Memory-aware tiled processing and cancellation
Astrometry & colour
The sky remains measurable
- Local ASTAP plate solving
- Bundled stellar catalogues
- Gaia XP spectrophotometric colour calibration
- WCS-aware overlays, mosaics and metadata
Technical specifications
Built like a workstation tool.
A compact signed application carries the native engine. Large models and astronomical catalogues are delivered separately, verified, and maintained without bloating every software update.
SystemSpecification
Image engine
Native C++ / Qt desktop architecture · Float64 working buffers · non-linear and linear workflows
File formats
FITS · XISF · TIFF · PNG · JPEG · camera RAW · layered SyQon project state
Compute
Apple Core ML · Windows DirectML · CUDA and MIGraphX where available · optimised CPU fallback
Neural runtime
Local ONNX inference · memory-aware tiling · tiered model profiles · cancellable processing
Astrometry
Local ASTAP solver · managed catalogue packages · WCS-aware inspection, alignment and mosaics
Colour science
Gaia DR3 XP references · channel composition · ICC-aware canvas and sRGB presentation export
Data integrity
Negative-value preservation · HDR headroom · NaN coverage · checksummed downloadable components
Privacy
Local pixels and inference · account-based entitlements · bounded anonymous technical usage statistics
Delivery
Signed application builds · cryptographic verification · automatic component and application updates
Platforms
Available at launch for Apple silicon macOS and Windows x64 · Linux and Intel Mac support following shortly after
Hardware-aware
Studio selects the strongest compatible local execution path while retaining a dependable CPU fallback.
Entitlement-aware
Only products attached to the signed-in SyQon account are offered and unlocked.
Incremental by design
Unchanged models and support data remain in place; only new or modified components are downloaded.
Always ready
A living ecosystem without the maintenance ritual.
Sign in once, and Studio prepares the tools available to your account. New models, catalogue revisions and application releases arrive through the same controlled update path.
- Automatic check at launch and manual Check for Updates
- Live transfer progress, cryptographic identity and checksum verification
- Application closes, updates and reopens; runtime data remains independent
- New purchases can unlock and download inside an active Studio session
Designed around trust
Powerful computation. Quietly private.
Images stay local
Neural inference and image processing happen on your workstation—not in a remote image-processing cloud.
Licences, not image data
Your SyQon account unlocks products and receives updates. It does not need your source pixels to run a model.
Measured telemetry
Product improvement uses bounded technical usage statistics, not photographs, file paths or model input and output content.
Official release · 25 September 2026
Your entire universe.
One Studio.
Native performance, local intelligence and a workflow designed around the way astrophotographers actually think.
Apple silicon macOS & Windows at launch Linux & Intel Mac shortly after Managed updates Local processing