There are so many pieces of astronomical software available to the amateur these days – often for free. We’ve added a list of some of them to our Links page.
Many of these are used by members of our Imaging Group and we have been discussing and demonstrating them at our meetings recently. Here are some of them:
- ASCOM software standards for astronomy (free)
- EQMOD control of Skywatcher mounts (free)
- Astrophotography Tool (APT) image capture
- N.I.N.A. image capture (free)
- Sharpcap image capture (free +)
- Firecapture planetary image capture (free)
- Deep Sky Stacker image processing (free)
- SIRIL deep sky processing (free)
- Astro Pixel Processor image processing
- Pixinsight image processing
- StarTools image processing
- Nebulosity camera control and processing
- PHD2 Guiding the autoguiding software (free)
- Autostakkert planetary/lunar/solar stacking (free)
- Registax planetary/lunar/solar stacking and processing (free)
- Sequator image processing and stacking for wide angle night sky images (free)
- AstroImageJ photometry/light curves/exoplanet transits (free)
- Sky charts and virtual Moon atlas for free download (free)
- Stellarium free planetarium software for Windows, Linux and OS X (free)
- Sky Safari planetarium app for iOS and Android
- Google Sky (free)