IRIS Astronomical Images Alternatives

IRIS Astronomical Images is described as 'IRIS is an astronomical images processing software' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are nine alternatives to IRIS Astronomical Images for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Flathub apps. The best IRIS Astronomical Images alternative is Siril, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like IRIS Astronomical Images are DeepSkyStacker, FITS Liberator, SAOImageDS9 and Regim.

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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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  2. DeepSkyStacker icon

    DeepSkyStacker

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    DeepSkyStacker is a freeware for astrophotographers that simplifies all the pre-processing steps of deep sky pictures.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. FITS Liberator icon

    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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  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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. R

    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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  7. PixInsight icon

    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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
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  9. Fitswork icon

    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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  10. Q

    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
     
  11. Astro App icon

    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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