DeepSkyStacker is a freeware for astrophotographers that simplifies all the pre-processing steps of deep sky pictures.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Qastrocam Alternatives
Qastrocam is described as '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' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Qastrocam for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Raspberry Pi. The best Qastrocam alternative is DeepSkyStacker, which is free. Other great apps like Qastrocam are IRIS Astronomical Images, SharpCap, AstroImager and Voyager Astrophotography.
Alternatives list
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
12 SharpCap alternativesSharpCap is an easy-to-use and powerful astronomy camera capture tool. It can be used with dedicated astronomy cameras, webcams and USB frame grabbers.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
AstroImager is a powerful, but easy to use image capture application for the astrophotography.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- 10 Voyager Astrophotography alternatives
Voyager is a multi core optimized software, resilient, with advanced built-in algorithms and advanced A.I. driven automatation for astro photography.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
APT stands for "AstroPhotography Tool" and it is like Swiss army knife for your astro imaging sessions. No matter what you are imaging with - Canon EOS, Nikon, CCD or CMOS astro camera, APT has the right tool for planning, collimating, aligning, focusing, framing...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- 10 BackyardEOS alternatives
BackyardEOS is software tailor made to control your Canon DSLR camera. It is purposely built with astro-photography in mind.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Raspberry Pi
Nebulosity is designed to be a powerful, but simple to use capture and processing application for Windows (7/8/10 32/64 bit) and OS X (10.7-14). A huge array of cameras are supported for capture (see below) and images from just about anything can be processed (support for many...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Qastrocam-g2 is a maintained fork of the great Qastrocam, written by F. Sicard. Qastrocam is a capture program to do astrophotography.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
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