Organize your astrophotography library.
Lumidex scans folders with your image files, reads the headers, and builds a database. You original data is never altered.
- Windows and MacOS support
- Debian-based linux distros should also work but no dpkg is available
- .FITS and .XISF files
- Multiple libraries support scanning files in multiple locations
- Search -> Search your library to find the images you're looking for
- Aliases -> Assign multiple names to object names from the headers
- Tags -> Group your images with tags
- Quick Scan -> only scan files added since the last scan
- Statistics -> See your total integration time and breakdown by filter
- Advanced Filters -> Search the database by most header fields
- Image Export -> Copy images to a destination folder
- AstroBin Export -> Export acquisition details in AstroBin CSV format
- Duplicate Detection -> See a list of duplicate images so you can track them down
- Edit Data -> Edit the database contents for images so you have consistent data (does not alter files)
- Plots -> Visualize your integration over time
- Coordinate Search -> Search for images near an RA/DEC coordinate
Check out the releases to download Lumidex.
There can be very high CPU usage from Windows Security (MsMpEng.exe) when scanning. The nature of Lumidex, scanning and hashing files, looks a lot like malware and triggers false positives. This high CPU usage can dramatically slow down scanning.
You can add Lumidex.Desktop.exe as a Process exclusion in Windows Security to mitigate the high CPU usage,
but this is certainly an added security risk -- only you can decide if it is worth it.