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 alternative is Nebulosity. 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 SbigControl, Voyager Astrophotography, AstroImager and N.I.N.A..

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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.

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Nebulosity
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
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10 alternatives to Nebulosity
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...

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FireCapture
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
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Linux
Raspberry Pi
12 alternatives to FireCapture
FireCapture has evolved into one of the leading planetary capturing tools.

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SbigControl
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Windows
10 alternatives to SbigControl
A low cost alternative control program for your SBIG astronomic camera.

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

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AstroImager
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
iPhone
10 alternatives to AstroImager
AstroImager is a powerful, but easy to use image capture application for the astrophotography.

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Qastrocam
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Free • Open Source
Linux
13 alternatives to Qastrocam
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.
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N.I.N.A.
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Free • Open Source
Windows
11 alternatives to N.I.N.A.
NINA is a night time imaging and astronomy software.

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SharpCap
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
12 alternatives to SharpCap
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.

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APT (Astro Photography Tool)
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
10 alternatives to APT (Astro Photography Tool)
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...

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Sequence Generator Pro
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Windows
10 alternatives to Sequence Generator Pro
Image capture suite for astronomy photography.

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