AstroImager Alternatives

AstroImager is described as 'Powerful, but easy to use image capture application for the astrophotography' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to AstroImager for Windows, Linux, Mac and Raspberry Pi. The best AstroImager alternative is Nebulosity. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try SharpCap or Qastrocam. Other great apps like AstroImager are SbigControl, APT (Astro Photography Tool), Sequence Generator Pro and Voyager Astrophotography.

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  1. 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 Windows & Mac alternative to AstroImager.

    • Nebulosity is the most popular commercial alternative to AstroImager.

    • Nebulosity is Paid and ProprietaryAstroImager is also 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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    • SharpCap is the most popular free alternative to AstroImager.

    • SharpCap is Free and ProprietaryAstroImager is Paid and Proprietary

  4. 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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  5. 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
     

    • Qastrocam is the most popular Linux alternative to AstroImager.

    • Qastrocam is the most popular Open Source alternative to AstroImager.

    • Qastrocam is Free and Open SourceAstroImager is Paid and Proprietary

  6. APT (Astro Photography Tool)

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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. 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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  10. 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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    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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  12. 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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