Software

Useful software links for all your astronomical adventures

#	Web Link	Hits
1	Guidemaster Guidemaster: a universal Webcam Autoguiding tool for fine astrophotographs.Since long time I tried to take simply good astronomical pictures. To me, one of the most important characteristics of a good astronomical picture is _sharp stars_. I have	646
2	HandyAvi user-friendly webcam software Versatile, user-friendly webcam software for: Time-lapse webcam movie making Motion-detection webcam imaging Surveillance, Home Security using a webcam Planetary imaging (astronomy) using a webcam Meteor Trail imaging with a webcam Animation us	457
3	Tpoint Face it. Your fancy "goto" telescope doesn't always place objects in the eyepiece, or on your CCD detector. Why? Because every telescope suffers from inherent errors that degrade pointing accuracy. Even telescopes like the Keck, Gemini, and Anglo-Aus	591
4	PixInsight PixInsight is a modular, open-architecture, portable image processing platform. The core PixInsight application provides powerful graphical, command-line and scripting interfaces, and includes a high-performance processing infrastructure. Processes,	565
5	MaximDL MaxIm DL is the fastest and easiest way to image the night sky. Whether you want to produce stunning portraits, collect science data, or hunt for new objects, MaxIm DL has the tools you need. MaxIm DL Version 5 adds a host of new capabilities, to	519
6	Lunar Map Pro More a revolution than an evolution, RITI is proud to introduce the most advanced, most detailed, & highest resolution lunar software on the planet! Lunar Map Pro 5.0 Deluxe Edition is a complete and comprehensive lunar mapping software program	683
7	K3CCDTools K3CCDTools is a Windows application dedicated for astro-imaging. It includes video-capturing (supporting wide range of video capture devices), auto-guiding and frame aligning and stacking / summing. It also provides simple image post-processing. H	552
8	The Guide About Project Pluto: Project Pluto supplies astronomical software, both commercial and freeware, to amateur and professional astronomers. The foremost product is the Guide CD-ROM Star Chart, a powerful general-purpose charting/desktop planetarium too	474
9	DeepSkyStacker DeepSkyStacker is a freeware for astrophotographers that simplifies all the pre-processing steps of deep sky pictures. Registering Stacking Simple post-stacking processes to quickly view the final result. Saving the resulting image to a T	558
10	Cartes du Ciel Sky Charts	454
11	Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.	371
12	ASTRONOMY - FREE SOFTWARE ASTRONOMY - FREE SOFTWARE Freeware downloads of planetarium and assorted astronomy programs.	547
13	RegiStax Free Image Processing Software Registax V4 becomes Hot Product 2007 in S&T and the 1st Update is available ! We got a letter from Sky & Telescope telling us that RegiStax V4 has been choosen as a hot product 2007! To celebrate this news we have just made the 1st update availabl	451
14	AstronomyDaily.com	430
15	Astronomy by JavaScript Sun Calculators and More The Scripts are computing solar data as sunrise, sunset, twilight, altitude, azimuth. JavaScript does not allow to perform any drawing operation, but clearly laid out tables can be set up and can be printed.	683
16	Astronomical Calendar Astronomical Calendar Data are available up to the end of 2011. Choose a display option (naked eye events, month, solar system object or event) using the panel on the right. 'Print' will only print the calendar of events chosen, the rest of the page content will not print. Times are UT (GMT +0). The information is UK-centric though most if it applies elsewhere. Minima of Algol however are given for when the star is visible in the UK and are only complete to the end of Jan 2011	285

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