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, SAOImageDS9, PixInsight and Regim.

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  1. Siril icon
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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.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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  2. 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
     
  3. SAOImageDS9 icon
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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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. PixInsight icon
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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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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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
     
  6. 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Fitswork icon
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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
     
  8. Astro App icon
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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
     
  9. Astroart icon
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    Astroart is a software for image processing, image analysis, astrometry, photometry, camera and telescope control.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. 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.

    13 Qastrocam alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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