March 18: Gain Normalization and the Crab Nebula Pipeline
The composite pipeline gained per-tile gain normalization to eliminate exposure-level grid artifacts, quality scoring via HTTP response headers, and HDR auto-stretch for extreme dynamic range targets like the Crab Nebula. Coverage-aware filter selection in the recipe engine now handles RA wraparound correctly.
What shipped
| PR | Title |
|---|---|
| #872 | fix: coverage-aware filter selection in recipe engine |
| #870 | feat: per-tile gain normalization to eliminate exposure-level grid artifacts |
| #867 | feat: composite quality scoring, streaming reprojection, HDR auto-stretch, input file sorting |