AstroImager



  1. Celestron AstroMaster telescopes are designed with high-quality materials that provide crystal-clear and bright images of Saturn, Jupiter, and the Moon, along with galaxies and nebulae. You can also use this telescope for viewing land-based objects during daytime hours. The telescope is quick to set up and requires no tools.
  2. ‎AstroImager is a powerful, but easy to use image capture application for the astrophotography. In this version the built-in INDIGO drivers support the following hardware: - CCD, focuser and wheel simulator drivers, - Atik CCD and wheel drivers, - ZWO ASI CCD, wheel and focuser drivers (doesn't wor.
  3. Software: AstroImager on MacBook Pro (Gain 100, Offset 70) Images acquired as fits. Debayering in PixInsight using RGGB pattern and VNG method Autostretched with the STF function in PixInsight All the images appear very different. After star aligning them and image integrating them in PixInsight the resulting image is unusable.

Astro Imager

MODAS – Modern Optical Design and Analysis Software. It is telescope design software of the most popular telescope systems used by the amateur astronomers and telescope makers

The Photron 150 RC OTA by iOptron is a 150 mm (6-inch) Ritchey Chretien astrograph telescope OTA designed for today's astroimager for a complete imaging and visual system. Introducing Photron, Ritchey Chretien (RC) telescope OTA by iOptron: Photron instruments are built to facilitate today's astroimager.

AstroImager

Nebulosity 4 - $95 capture and processing software for Mac/PC. Supports a bunch of Canon DSLRs and astro cams.

PEMPro - periodic error correction, polar alignment and backlash using your CCD Camera or Webcam

PHD1PHD2 - Guiding software to correct mount errors for longer exposures.

Photoshop CS2 - free from Adobe but requires you to make an Adobe ID

PIPP - Planetary imaging preprocessor, good for shaving down file sizes with cropped, stabilized planetary shots

PixInsight - postprocessing software

Registax - planetary video processing/stacking software

sbigControl - relatively cheap SBIG camera control program. can drive sbig adaptive optics devices.

Sequence Generator Pro - image capture suite for astrophotography.

SharpCap 2 - Flexible image capturing software, records in raw, uncompressed files

SkySolve - Plate Solving software.

Sofortbild - Free capture control for Mac + Nikon.

StarStax - used for creating star trail images

StarTools - postprocessing software written by /u/verylongtimelurker

Stellarium - Free software that lets you input your coordinates and will show you when objects will be up and at what time.

Stellar Magic - a comprehensive yet easy to use program for processing astronomical images contains over 100 different image processing operations.

Virtual Dub - video converting software, requires plugin for .MOV > .AVI

Winjupos - planetary processing software for derotation/mapping/planetary moon alignment

Plugins for Photoshop

WhiteCal

Plugins for GIMP

Purple Fringe Fix

Resource for Mac and UNIX software

(No guarantees the links are up to date or even active) scroll down to the Mac and UNIX sections

Midnight Kite - Astronomy Software Freeware, Shareware, and Commercial Software

Astro Art 6.0 - A complete software package for image processing, camera and telescope control, photometry, astrometry and image stacking.

AstroGuider - AstroGuider is a simple to use guiding application for your telescope mount. It can be calibrated semi-automatically or manually, you do not need to take care about camera orientation or pixel scale. (OSX)

AstroImager - AstroImager is a powerful, but easy to use image capture application for the astrophotography. (OSX)

Astro Planner - for planning/logging/visualizing astrophotography sessions

Astronomer Control Panel - Remote imaging software.

AstroTelescope - AstroTelescope is a simple planetarium and telescope control application for the astrophotography. (OSX)

Astrotortilla - calibrate your Goto tracking mount, Goto any target with arcsecond accuracy and measure your polar alignment error

Autostakkert! 2 - Planetary video stacking software

Backyard EOS - For camera control, easily the best $$ you'll spend on AP software.

CCD Imaging Calculators - For calculating all things related to CCD imaging (FOV/pixel size/etc)

CCD Stack - Stacking software for CCD images

CCDOPS - The software that comes with SBIG CCD cameras also available separately.

DeepSkyStacker - For stacking multiple exposures together into one image.

digiCamControl - Free camera control for those with Nikon DSLRs.

DSLR Shutter - Free sequence capture control for Mac/PC + lots of DSLRs. You need a shutter control interface, like this one in order to use this with a Nikon however.

EQMOD - a suite of open source applications that can provide an alternative to the hand controller

FireCapture - Simple image capturing software that resizes video resolution automatically & has auto align & dark frame reduction features

FITS Liberator - FIT > TIFF file converter

Gemini Controller Software - For those that use Gemini controlled mounts

GIMP - post processing/image editing software

iMerge - Used for one click image stitching with border feathering & Histogram

IrfanView - IrfanView is a very fast, small, and compact free the graphics viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10.

Lin Guider - guiding for Linux

Lunar Phase Pro - An interactive Moon Atlas – this is a moon observer’s software toolkit designed to help you learn about the Moon and make your lunar observing and imaging sessions more productive.

Lykeos - free planetary stacker (OSx)

MaximDL - Great CCD Camera control software and decent processing power too.

MicroObservatory - A piece of software that is meant to be used to process images from MicroObservatory.org, it's not really good for much else, but it does a damned good job of teaching people the basics of processing RGB FITS data.

Microsoft ICE - mosaic/composite image stitching software

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Astro Imager Software

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