Software

Planetarium Software

Name Website / Description
Stellarium 
Stellarium  

Free Planetarium Software
Windows, Mac OSX, Linux

Cartes du Ciel    

Cartes du Ciel  

Planetarium software and sky chart creation.
Windows, Mac OSX, Linux

Virtual Moon Atlas    

Virtual Moon Atlas  

Software showing surface of the Moon and packed with information about all of the features.
Windows, Linux

Image Capture

Name  Website / Description 
FireCapture    

FireCapture

Firecapture
FireCapture is a popular capture software and it supports many cameras.
Windows, OSX, Linux
SharpCap    

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.
Windows

oaCapture    

oaCapture/  

oaCapture is a planetary imaging application for Linux and MacOS supporting many cameras.
OSX, Linux

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.
Windows

Registax    

Registax   

Planetary image stacking software. Can stack individually captured images or frames captured from a short video sequence.
Windows

Startrails    

Startrails   

Software for creating star trail images by stacking several short exposure images together to create a longer exposure shot.
Windows

Astro Photography Tool (APT)    

APT   

Shareware software for controlling Canon DSLR cameras during astrophotography sessions.
Windows

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.
Windows

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.
Windows

GPredict    

GPredict  

Software for the positioning of satellites in orbit around the Earth along with the ISS.
Windows, Mac OSX, Linux