Planetarium Software
Name | Website / Description |
Stellarium |
Stellarium
Free Planetarium Software |
Cartes du Ciel | Cartes du Ciel
Planetarium software and sky chart creation. |
Virtual Moon Atlas | Virtual Moon Atlas
Software showing surface of the Moon and packed with information about all of the features. |
Image Capture
Name | Website / Description |
FireCapture | Firecapture FireCapture is a popular capture software and it supports many cameras. Windows, OSX, Linux |
SharpCap | 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. |
oaCapture | oaCapture/
oaCapture is a planetary imaging application for Linux and MacOS supporting many cameras. |
Image Processing
Name | Website / Description |
Deep Sky Stacker | Deep Sky Stacker
Deep sky astrophotography stacking software. Allows multiple subs to be stacked along with dark, flat and bias images. |
Registax | Registax
Planetary image stacking software. Can stack individually captured images or frames captured from a short video sequence. |
Startrails | Startrails
Software for creating star trail images by stacking several short exposure images together to create a longer exposure shot. |
Astro Photography Tool (APT) | APT
Shareware software for controlling Canon DSLR cameras during astrophotography sessions. |
Misc Software
Name | Website / Description |
BackyardRED | BackyardRED
Turn your computer monitor into a night vision friendly monitor without the hassle of carrying a red film or glass to your observing site. |
Polar Finder | Polar Finder
Software to assist with polar alignment by showing the position of Polaris for a given time when viewed through a polar alignment scope. |
GPredict | GPredict
Software for the positioning of satellites in orbit around the Earth along with the ISS. |