This software will read a wide variety of file formats including Canon RAW format, and process them. The best thing about this software is that it’s free, and amazingly capable for something that is free.
This is a free and very capable piece of software for aligning, combining and performing post processing of astrophotographs from digital SLR cameras. Software suitable for stacking and/or processing astrophotography DSLR images: If you know of programs which are suitable for DSLR astrophotography image processing that are not on this list please let me know, also let me know if information here needs updating. So here I am going to list a few options, hopefully making it easier for anyone who finds this page. Or, also often the case, people don’t realise that there is software available to make this easy.
The question often arises from the above of what piece of software to use for stacking and processing the resulting images that you take using your camera. Acquire a piece of software to process (including stack) the photographs you take. Acquire a piece of software to help take long exposure photographsĤ. Buy a tripod, telescope or other tracking platformģ. There’s a few basic steps required for getting started in DSLR astrophotography.
These are relatively cheap, can be used for astronomy and ordinary terrestrial photography, and produce surprisingly good astronomy images so have become quite popular. Deep Sky Stacking Programs for Digital SLR CamerasĪ common approach to astrophotography has become the use of Digital SLR cameras (DSLR).