Astrophotography Resources

##Software

  • Astrobackyard Astrophotography Resources: Software applications used on a daily basis by Astrobackyard for capturing and processing deep-sky astrophotography images. Some of these programs are free, most are not.
  • Sharpcap: SharpCap is an easy-to-use and powerful astronomy camera capture tool. It can be used with dedicated astronomy cameras, webcams and USB frame grabbers.
  • Sequator: Sequator is a free software which can track stars on multiple images, align stars and stack them.
  • Registax 6: Registax 6 software for alignment/stacking/processing of images
  • Deep Sky Stacker: DeepSkyStacker is a freeware for astrophotographers that simplifies all the pre-processing steps of deep sky pictures: Registering, Stacking, Simple post-stacking processes to quickly view the final result., Saving the resulting image to a TIFF or FITS file (16 or 32 bit)
  • Autostakkert: AS! Stacking Software
  • PIPP - Planetary Imaging PreProcessor: PIPP is a Windows application designed for pre-processing planetary images before stacking them with image stacking software such as Registax. PIPP’s main purpose is to crop each image frame and select only the best quality frames to reduce the memory and processing requirements of the stacking software.
  • Firecapture: Planetary Capture Software
  • StarStaxx: StarStaX is a fast multi-platform image stacking and blending software, which allows to merge a series of photos into a single image using different blending modes. It is developed primarily for Star Trail Photography
  • Astronomy Tools: A collection of useful, free astronomy tools. FOV Calculator, Star Chart, Cloud Forecast, Lookup coordinates
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