- WcCtrl: helps to control the settings of several webcam models (freeware).
- WcRmac: edits the firmware of several webcam models (freeware).
- SkyChart: Sky map (freeware).
- AutoStar Suite: Sky map from Meade.
- Messier Marathon: generates a list of Messier objects visibles from your location (freeware).
- NGC Observer: generates a list of objects from several catalogs (Messier, NGC, etc.) visibles from your location.
- AstroPlanner: observation planner, much more more sophisticated than the previous. Free version with some limitations.
- Bahtinov Grabbber: helps focusing using a Bahtinov mask (freeware).
- EQAlign: scope polar aligning, periodic error analysis and autoguiding (freeware).
- Desire: long exposure imaging with modified webcams (freeware).
- K3CCDTools: photo and video acquisition, planetary image processing (freeware version). See my image processing video tutorial using this software.
- Envisage: image acquisition, calibration, aligning and stacking for Meade DSI cameras.
- MaxIm DL: image acquisition, calibration, aligning, stacking and post-processing.
- DeepSkyStacker: image calibration, aligning and stacking specific for deep space astrophotography. See my image processing video tutorial using this software.
- RegiStax: image calibration, aligning and stacking specific for planetary astrophotography. It can also be used for deep space astrophotography (freeware).
- IMerge: makes astrophotography mosaics (freeware).
- Focus magic: improves images focusing and contrast.
- PixInsight LE: image post-processing (freeware version).
Recommended software
These are some of the programs I use or have tried and recommend:
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Recommended sites
- Alpha Centauri (Carlos di Nallo)
- Astroblog (Alberto Ceretta)
- Astrofotografia Uruguay (Jorge Quiñones)
- Astronomía y Astrofotografía en Uruguay (Gerardo Addiego)
- Astronomo.org (Forum about amateur astronomers observations)
- Astronomy For Beginners
- Espacio Profundo
- Fotografía Astronómica (Carlos Scarsi)
- Infobservador (Claudio Martínez)
- Kappa Crucis Observatory (Alejandro Garro)
- QCUIAG (pioneers in amateur astrophotography)
- Telescopes
- Zemiorka (Astronautics ans space exploration history)