Getting one's ass outside to set up the telescope and actually take the images is only the first part of the process. Arguably the most time consuming aspect of astrophotography is the processing that takes place afterwards. Although, it's during that stage that the images come to life. In this post i'm going to list the various programmes I use or have come across that might be of some use. This list isn't definitive and will be updated as I find other useful programmes. As I'm generally cheap, I'm avoiding paid software and focusing Open Source programmes wherever possible... :)
Planetarium software:
Stellarium
SkyX First Light Edition (came with telescope)
Capture software (webcam)
SharpCap
Orion AmpCap
D-PEN AMCap
wxAstroCapture
Stacking software
Registax (planets)
Avistack (planets)
DeepSkyStacker (deep sky)
Other useful tools to convert avi captures to jpgs or extract segments of video
Avidemux
RAD Video Tools
Avisynth
Image editing
Gimp
Photoshop
Other
Panda Batch File Renamer (rename a large batch of files e.g. jpgs)
Watch this place for updates....
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