FireCapture Alternatives

FireCapture is described as 'Has evolved into one of the leading planetary capturing tools' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to FireCapture for Windows, Linux, Mac and iPhone. The best FireCapture 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 FireCapture are Sequence Generator Pro, SbigControl, Alcor System PRISM and APT (Astro Photography Tool).

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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 FireCapture.

    • Nebulosity is the most popular commercial alternative to FireCapture.

    • Nebulosity is Paid and ProprietaryFireCapture is Free 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • SharpCap is the most popular free alternative to FireCapture.

    • SharpCap is Free and ProprietaryFireCapture is also Free 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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  6. Alcor System PRISM

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    Prism est un logiciel d'astronomie, de contrôle de télescope et observatoire, de traitement et d'analyse des images.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Alcor System PRISM is the most popular Linux alternative to FireCapture.

    • Alcor System PRISM is Paid and ProprietaryFireCapture is Free and Proprietary

  7. 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. 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 FireCapture.

    • Qastrocam is Free and Open SourceFireCapture is Free 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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    AstroImager

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    AstroImager is a powerful, but easy to use image capture application for the astrophotography.

    10 AstroImager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
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    • AstroImager is the most popular iPhone alternative to FireCapture.

    • AstroImager is Paid and ProprietaryFireCapture is Free and Proprietary

  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Qastrocam-g2

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    Qastrocam-g2 is a maintained fork of the great Qastrocam, written by F. Sicard. Qastrocam is a capture program to do astrophotography.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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