DeepSkyStacker Alternatives

DeepSkyStacker is described as 'Freeware for astrophotographers that simplifies all the pre-processing steps of deep sky pictures' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to DeepSkyStacker for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Flathub apps. The best DeepSkyStacker alternative is Siril, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like DeepSkyStacker are FITS Liberator, Sequator, SAOImageDS9 and PixInsight.

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  1. Siril icon

    Siril

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    Siril is an astronomical image processing tool, able to convert, pre-process images, help aligning them automatically or manually, stack them and enhance final images.

    9 Siril alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    lots of automated processes self explanatory AND runs on MAC!!!!

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    Siril is the number one software alternative to DeepSkyStacker

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    • Most users think Siril is a great DeepSkyStacker alternative.

    • Siril is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to DeepSkyStacker.

    • Siril is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to DeepSkyStacker.

    • Siril is Free and Open SourceDeepSkyStacker is Free and Proprietary
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    FITS Liberator

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    FITS Liberator GUI image processing software has meant that it is even easier and faster to create color images using raw observations from a range of telescopes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Sequator icon

    Sequator

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    Sequator is a free software which can track stars on multiple images, align stars and stack them.

    2 Sequator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. SAOImageDS9 icon

    SAOImageDS9

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    SAOImageDS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colormaps.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    PixInsight

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    PixInsight is an advanced image processing platform specialized in astrophotography and other technical imaging fields, constantly pushing the boundaries of astronomical image processing with the most powerful toolset available.

    7 PixInsight alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • PixInsight is the most popular commercial alternative to DeepSkyStacker.

    • PixInsight is Paid and ProprietaryDeepSkyStacker is Free and Proprietary
  7. Starry Landscape Stacker icon

    Starry Landscape Stacker

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    Starry Landscape Stacker makes it possible to produce landscape photographs taken at night that have both low noise and stars rendered as points.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. Regim

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    Regim makes some processing steps that are unique to astronomical images a bit easier. These steps are calibration (dark and flat), deblooming, registration, combination, color calibration, gradient removal and some more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Fitswork

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    Fitswork is a windows image processing program, mainly designed for astronomic purposes. It contains batch processing, histogram functions, many filters, etc. Fitswork works entirely in floating-point arithmetic.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Astro App

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    The Astro App is a tool for exploring the night sky and tracking celestial events. It's primarily targeted for amateur astrophotographers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    • Astro App is the most popular Web-based alternative to DeepSkyStacker.

    • Astro App is Free and ProprietaryDeepSkyStacker is also Free and Proprietary
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    Astroart

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    Astroart is a software for image processing, image analysis, astrometry, photometry, camera and telescope control.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. 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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