BackyardEOS Alternatives

BackyardEOS is described as 'Is software tailor made to control your Canon DSLR camera. It is purposely built with astro-photography in mind' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to BackyardEOS for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Raspberry Pi. The best BackyardEOS alternative is Voyager Astrophotography. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try FireCapture or Qastrocam. Other great apps like BackyardEOS are Nebulosity, SbigControl, AstroImager and N.I.N.A..

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  1. 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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    • Voyager Astrophotography is the most popular Windows alternative to BackyardEOS.

    • Voyager Astrophotography is the most popular commercial alternative to BackyardEOS.

    • Voyager Astrophotography is Paid and ProprietaryBackyardEOS is also Paid and Proprietary

  2. 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 BackyardEOS.

    • Nebulosity is Paid and ProprietaryBackyardEOS is also Paid and Proprietary

  4. 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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    • FireCapture is the most popular Linux alternative to BackyardEOS.

    • FireCapture is the most popular free alternative to BackyardEOS.

    • FireCapture is Free and ProprietaryBackyardEOS is Paid and Proprietary

  5. 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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    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 BackyardEOS.

    • AstroImager is Paid and ProprietaryBackyardEOS is also Paid and Proprietary

  7. 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 Open Source alternative to BackyardEOS.

    • Qastrocam is Free and Open SourceBackyardEOS is Paid and Proprietary
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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.

    12 SharpCap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. 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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