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 a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. 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, NightPortal, Nebulosity and Sequence Generator Pro.

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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.

    11 N.I.N.A. alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. SharpCap icon

    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. NightPortal icon

    NightPortal

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    NightPortal is a free astronomy planning web app that helps stargazers and astrophotographers find visible targets, plan sessions, and optimize telescope/camera setup.

    3 NightPortal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    FireCapture

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
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  10. AstroImager icon

    AstroImager

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
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    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
     
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    SbigControl

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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