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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

'In the day nothing matters, it's the night time that flatters' Laura Branigan, 1952 - 2004: Minor Planets. AstroImager is a powerful, but easy to use image capture application for the astrophotography. The built-in INDIGO drivers support the following hardware: CCD, focuser and wheel simulator drivers, Atik CCD and wheel drivers. MEET JIMMY WALKER: Professional golfer by day, astroimager by night. As he's traveling the country winning major golf events like the Fry's Open, Sony Open, AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, and most recently 2016's PGA Championship, Walker uses a Celestron telescope housed at New Mexico Skies (NMS) to conduct astroimaging sessions remotely. AstroImager is a member of our astrophotography tools family including AstroDSLR, AstroTelescope, AstroGuider, FITS Preview, INDIGO Server for OS X, INDIGO Control Panel, INDIGO Dashboard and Astrometry for OS X. AstroImager is an astrophotography application designed to work with various camera models, or with any INDI server. In addition, AstroImager can operate in association with filter wheel and CCD devices.

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

Astro Imager Software

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

Astroimager Mac Review

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

Astroimager Definition

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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AstroImager is a powerful, but easy-to-use image-capture application for astrophotography. It can be used as a client to any remote or local INDI server with any supported CCD, filter wheel, or focuser. The built-in drivers support the following hardware:

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• ATIK Titan Mono and Colour
• ATIK 3xx/4xx family CCDs
• ATIK One 6 and 9 (and its internal filter wheel)
• ATIK 16200 CCDs
• ATIK 11000/4000 CCDs
• ATIK VS and Infinity CCDs
• IIDC CCDs (compatible USB 2.0+ or FireWire cameras, including Atik GP)
• ZWO ASI USB 3.0 CCDs
• Starlight Xpress CCDs (all USB 2.0 cameras)
• QSI 5xx/6xx CCDs
• FLI CCDs
• SSAG/QHY5 CCDs,
• SBIG CCDs (vendor SDK must be installed),
• QHY CCDs (experimenetal code),
• MEADE DSI CCDs (experimenetal code),
• Starlight Xpress filter wheels
• FLI filter wheels
• ATIK EFW2 filter wheels
• ZWO ASI EFW filter wheels,
• SBIG filter wheels (vendor SDK must be installed),
• Shoestring Astronomy FC USB Focuser controller
• USB_Focus V3 focuser controllers

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AstroImager also controls the set point cooling and the mechanical shutter of the attached camera (if available). It can preview or capture and save images to selected folder with any file name prefix, count, duration and time lapse, browse captured images and show them in Finder, zoom and stretch them automatically or manually. It can measure FWHM and the drift of a selected star to help easier and faster focus and align your equatorial telescope mount. Captured images can be plate-solved using public astrometry.net service or local Astrometry for OS X application. Images are stored in FITS format using CFITSIO library with user defined keywords and can be debayered automatically during preview with custom offsets. Two separate filter name sets can be used for easier change of carousels. AstroImager is a member of our amateur astrophotography tools family including AstroTelescope, AstroGuider, and FITS Preview.