APT (Astro Photography Tool) Alternatives

APT (Astro Photography Tool) is described as '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' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to APT (Astro Photography Tool) for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Raspberry Pi. The best APT (Astro Photography Tool) alternative is N.I.N.A., which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like APT (Astro Photography Tool) are SharpCap, Nebulosity, Sequence Generator Pro and BackyardEOS.

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  1. N.I.N.A. icon

    N.I.N.A.

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    NINA is a night time imaging and astronomy software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • N.I.N.A. is the most popular Windows alternative to APT (Astro Photography Tool).

    • N.I.N.A. is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to APT (Astro Photography Tool).

    • N.I.N.A. is Free and Open SourceAPT (Astro Photography Tool) is Paid and Proprietary
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    SharpCap

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    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.

    12 SharpCap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Nebulosity

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    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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Nebulosity is the most popular Mac alternative to APT (Astro Photography Tool).

    • Nebulosity is the most popular commercial alternative to APT (Astro Photography Tool).

    • Nebulosity is Paid and ProprietaryAPT (Astro Photography Tool) is also Paid and Proprietary

  6. BackyardEOS

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    BackyardEOS is software tailor made to control your Canon DSLR camera. It is purposely built with astro-photography in mind.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. FireCapture

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    FireCapture has evolved into one of the leading planetary capturing tools.

    12 FireCapture alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
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    • FireCapture is the most popular Linux alternative to APT (Astro Photography Tool).

    • FireCapture is Free and ProprietaryAPT (Astro Photography Tool) is Paid and Proprietary
  9. AstroImager icon

    AstroImager

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

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
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    • AstroImager is the most popular iPhone alternative to APT (Astro Photography Tool).

    • AstroImager is Paid and ProprietaryAPT (Astro Photography Tool) is also Paid and Proprietary

  10. Qastrocam

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    Qastrocam is a 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  11. SbigControl

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    A low cost alternative control program for your SBIG astronomic camera.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Voyager Astrophotography

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    Voyager is a multi core optimized software, resilient, with advanced built-in algorithms and advanced A.I. driven automatation for astro photography.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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