DeepSkyStacker Alternatives

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   Siril

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   Siril is an astronomical image processing tool, able to convert, pre-process images, help aligning them automatically or manually, stack them and enhance final images.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
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   Positive comment by Guest · Oct 9, 2022

   lots of automated processes self explanatory AND runs on MAC!!!!

   Positive comment by Guest · Oct 17, 2022

   Siril is the number one software alternative to DeepSkyStacker

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   FITS Liberator

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   FITS Liberator GUI image processing software has meant that it is even easier and faster to create color images using raw observations from a range of telescopes.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   • United States

   

   

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   SAOImageDS9

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   SAOImageDS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colormaps.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

   

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   Starry Landscape Stacker

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   Starry Landscape Stacker makes it possible to produce landscape photographs taken at night that have both low noise and stars rendered as points.

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac

   • United States

   

   

   

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   Regim

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   Regim makes some processing steps that are unique to astronomical images a bit easier. These steps are calibration (dark and flat), deblooming, registration, combination, color calibration, gradient removal and some more.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   PixInsight

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   PixInsight is an advanced image processing platform specialized in astrophotography and other technical imaging fields, constantly pushing the boundaries of astronomical image processing with the most powerful toolset available.

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   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • Spain
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Mac
   • Windows

   • Spain
   • EU

   

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   IRIS Astronomical Images

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   IRIS is an astronomical images processing software.

   Cost / License

   • Free Personal
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Windows

   • France
   • EU

   

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    Fitswork

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    Fitswork is a windows image processing program, mainly designed for astronomic purposes. It contains batch processing, histogram functions, many filters, etc. Fitswork works entirely in floating-point arithmetic.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

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    Astro App

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    The Astro App is a tool for exploring the night sky and tracking celestial events. It's primarily targeted for amateur astrophotographers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online

    

    

    

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    Astroart

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    Astroart is a software for image processing, image analysis, astrometry, photometry, camera and telescope control.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

    

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    Astraios

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    Professional GPU-accelerated astrophotography image processing. Free, open-source alternative to PixInsight.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

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    Qastrocam

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    Qastrocam is a capture program to do astrophotography. It can control a telescope to do guiding with the images received from a V4L device. It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do long exposure (several seconds) captures.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

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