SharpCap Alternatives

SharpCap is described as 'Easy-to-use and powerful astronomy camera capture tool. It can be used with dedicated astronomy cameras, webcams and USB frame grabbers' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to SharpCap for Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone and Raspberry Pi. The best SharpCap alternative is AllSkEye, which is free. Other great apps like SharpCap are FireCapture, Nebulosity, AstroImager and N.I.N.A..

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  1. AllSkEye

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    The AllSkEye application is a free, dedicated Windows ‘All-Sky’ imaging app for use with astronomical all-sky cameras. The app will run on any version of Windows from Vista onwards and currently supports Starlight Xpress, ZWO ASI and Altair Astro cameras as well as any camera...

    6 AllSkEye alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • AllSkEye is the most popular Windows alternative to SharpCap.

    • AllSkEye is the most popular free alternative to SharpCap.

    • AllSkEye is Free and ProprietarySharpCap is also Free and Proprietary

  2. FireCapture

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    FireCapture has evolved into one of the leading planetary capturing tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
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    • FireCapture is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to SharpCap.

    • FireCapture is Free and ProprietarySharpCap is also Free and Proprietary

  4. 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 commercial alternative to SharpCap.

    • Nebulosity is Paid and ProprietarySharpCap is Free and Proprietary
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    AstroImager

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

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    • AstroImager is Paid and ProprietarySharpCap 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.

    11 N.I.N.A. alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • N.I.N.A. is the most popular Open Source alternative to SharpCap.

    • N.I.N.A. is Free and Open SourceSharpCap is Free and Proprietary

  7. 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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  9. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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.

    10 BackyardEOS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  13. 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
     

  14. 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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