APT (Astro Photography Tool) Alternatives

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   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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   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

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   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Online
   • Software as a Service (SaaS)

   • United States

   

   

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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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   Sequence Generator Pro

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   Image capture suite for astronomy photography.

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Platforms

   • 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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    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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