SOFTWARES (reviewed 2016/05/12)
Reminder : all the texts / pictures in this web site Copyright S. Weiller, 1998-2016 Permission granted to copy them, only for non commercial purpose if this site is clearly posted and cited as source. |
mostly Windows & DOS Sites
Note that some softwares may appear in different tables
if they are doing more than one thing
Legend : SW= shareware, FW= freeware, TW= Trialware , LW Limitedware,
W= downloadable from WWW ; L= language, M= mutilingual
Acc= Frame accumulation, LE= Long time Exposures, TL =time lapse, FIT=
FIT format
Webcams : *= all WFW, BW= grey scale QC; Rg=
Image registration
Special softwares ... Artensoft Tilt Shift Generator |
Personnal softwares and utilities ...
BatchMaker | Gilbert Grillot & Sylvain Weiller | FW | Utility to quickly create batch files for Registax "Batch mode" | ||
Stereo*|*3D | http://ggrillot.free.fr http://sweiller.free.fr |
Gilbert Grillot & Sylvain Weiller | FW | Compose 3D pictures & astronomical derotation |
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StereoVue | http://ggrillot.free.fr/ | Gilbert Grillot & Sylvain Weiller | FW | Rewriting and many improved features... | |
STEREO... | http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/index.html | Muttyan | FW | A great collection of 3D softwares : Stereo Movie Maker, Stereo Movie Player, Stereo Photo Maker, 360 degree Stereo Panorama, StereoPhotoViewer, Stereogram Maker |
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RSP_Mover | http://ggrillot.free.fr | Gilbert Grillot & Sylvain Weiller | FW | Batch transformation of .RSP Registax files for reuse after directories moving or rename | |
Cropcenter | here | Gilbert Grillot & Sylvain Weiller | FW | Recenter images on a bigger one (when object of interest is near the sides) | |
REGISTAX 4 | French language : lang_fr | Sylvain Weiller | FW | To turn Registax V4 into french. Last version available ! |
ACQUISITION
Name |
URL |
Origin |
F/S |
Specials |
L |
cam |
$ |
Eclipse Photography Software | http://www.moonglowtechnologies.com/products/EclipseOrchestrator/index.shtml | Fred Bruenjes | FW | DLSR controleur | US | ||
LIMOVIE | http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/k_miyash/occ02/limovie_en.html See work at : http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/daveg/astrovideos/namausa.pdf |
Kazuhisa Miyashita | FW | Measure of intensities in AVIs | US | ||
UFO-Capture | http://sonotaco.com/soft/e_index.html | FW & T W |
Most powerfull Motion detector with DV camcorder live input accepted ! | US | |||
ASTROVIDEO | No more link contact me ... | COAA software | SW | Acc, FIT |
US | * | |
VEGA | No more link contact me ... | Colin Bownes | FW | Acc, FIT (16 & 32 bits),
TL |
M | * | |
QCV2 | http://www.astrosurf.com/dallmon/html/qcsoftware.html | Dave Allmon | FW | LE (300 sec !) |
US | BW | |
AVIEDIT | http://www.am-soft.ru/setup.exe | Alexander Milukov | SW | TL |
M | * | |
ECLIPSEQC | No more link contact me ... | Jean-Paul Godard | FW | Eclipse TL |
Fr | * | |
ASTROQC | http://astroqc.free.fr/ | Jean-Paul Godard | FW | Fr | * | ||
WEBCAM III | No more link contact me ... | Creative | W | Ergonomic |
US | VP | |
QCFOCUS | No more link contact me ... | Patrick Chevalley | FW | Focusing |
US | * | |
CAMZOOM | No more link contact me ... | Achay Doan | FW | Acc |
Fr | BW | |
FOTOQCVC | No more link contact me ... | Alfonso Pulido | FW | ||||
ASTRO-BV | http://www.ra-dec.de/bv/ | Jürgen Liesmann | FW | Acc |
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CAME | No more link contact me ... | TsuruZoh Tachibanaya | FW | Digital cameras using SpacLite |
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ASTROSNAP | http://www.astrosnap.com | Axel Canicio | FW | The best software for acquisition with webcams ! Full support of VP-SC and lots of other incredible features ! |
M | ||
Controlcam | No more link contact me ... | Micro Application | Best motion detection software for all webcams |
20E | |||
AVI_IO | http://www.avi-io.com/ | LW | Avi capture with many parameters (delay...) | US | |||
iCatch | No more link contact me ... | FW | Capture for modified 1004x cameras | US | |||
StereoTracker | No more link contact me ... | FW | 3D stereo Capture with 2 USB webcams | US | ! 7Mo ! | ||
Hocus | No more link contact me ... | FW | Uses output from digital cameras | US |
Reminder : all the texts / pictures in this web site Copyright S. Weiller, 1998-2010 Permission granted to copy them, only for non commercial purpose if this site is clearly posted and cited as source. |
VISUALISATION / CONVERSION
Name |
URL |
Origin |
F/S |
Specials |
L |
$ |
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AVI2BMP | http://avi2bmp.free.fr is lost ! Get the last version I got from Emmanuel (050b) |
Emmanuel Depigny | FW | AVI -> BMP with Crop, FIT |
M | ||
IRIS | http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/us/iris/iris.htm | Christian Buil | FW | AVI -> FIT | M | ||
FITS2BMP | No more link contact me ... | Patrick Chevalley | FW | FIT -> BMP | US | ||
ASTROTRI | No more link contact me ... | Gilbert Grillot | FW | BMP -> JPG Selection... |
Fr | ||
PSP | http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Home | Jasc softwares | SW | ALL - FIT | M | ||
LURAWAVE | http://www.luratech.com/products/lurawave | Luratech | TW | Wavelet, JPEG 2000 | US | ||
JPEG2000 | http://www.jpeg2000info.com/ | NEWS | US | ||||
JPGSAVER | No more link contact me ... | US | |||||
QCAMCOPY | No more link contact me ... | Patrick Chevalley | FW | BMP -> FIT, PIC, 8 & 16 bits | Fr | ||
ASTROIMA | No more link contact me ... | Patrick Chevalley | FW | Visualisation many formats | Fr | ||
FITS ANIMATOR | http://www.astrosurf.com/ccdbazar/D-Logiciels/FitsAnim/FitsAnim01.html | Philippe Martignole | FW | FIT -> GIF | Fr | ||
XNVIEW | http://www.xnview.com/fr/ | Claude Charries | FW | multimedia viewer, browser and
converter
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M | ||
HandyAVI | http://www.astroshow.com/handyavi/handyavi.htm | Howard C. Anderson | FW | Visualisation cropping, bestof | US | ||
VirtualDub | http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/ | FW | Most of the technical operations you will ever have to do on AVI files !! | US |
ASTRO PROCESSING
DeepSkyStacker | http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html | ? | FW | Automatic preprocessing / registering of deep sky images including RAW !! | M | ||
IRIS | http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/ | Christian Buil | FW | Most powerful ! Rg of most even large objects | M | $ | |
PSP | http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Home | Jasc softwares | SW | ALL - no FIT | M | ||
AVI2BMP | No more link contact me ... | Emmanuel Depigny | FW | Fastest Very good planetary Rg for objects circled with dark background only Saves BMP or FIT |
M | ||
ASTROSTACK 2 |
http://www.astrostack.com | R.J. Stekelenburg | FW | Very good Rg of most even large objects | US | ||
MAXIM DL V3 DEMO | No more link contact me ... | Cyanogen | TW | Rg of most objects Plenty of powerful filters (Maxentropy...) |
US | ||
GIMP WIN | http://www.gimp.org | FW | FREE PSP like, Not many Filters yet |
US | |||
PERFECT PHOTO | No more link contact me ... | PSP like | US | 30 | |||
REGISTAR | http://www.aurigaimaging.com/ | TW | Deep Sky Rg | US | |||
FITS Image Processing | No more link contact me ... | Franck Jan Sorenson | SW | US | |||
StellaImage | http://www.astroarts.com | TW | US | ||||
MIRA | http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/astro/software.html | US | ++ | ||||
MoonStack | http://www.astrosurf.com/eroyer/MoonStack/MoonStack.htm | Eric Royer | FW | Moon Rg !! | Fr | ||
The Panorama Factory | http://www.panoramafactory.com/ | John Strait | FW | Panorama & mosaics | US | ||
ImagePlus | http://www.mlunsold.com/ | Powerfull demo | US | ||||
AstroAlign | http://arnholm.org/ | Carsten A. Arnholm | FW | Realign colors planes | US | ||
K3CCDTools | http://www.pk3.org/Astro/ | Peter Katreniak | FW | Capture, alignment, export | |||
REGISTAX V3 | http://www.astronomie.be/registax/about.html | Cor Berrevoets | FW | Exceptionnal AVI, SER and stills registration | |||
RSP_Mover (For Registax V3) |
http://ggrillot.free.fr/astro/programmes/RSP_Mover.zip Also on Registax site now... |
Gilbert Grillot | FW | You have moved your AVIs and .RSP files and you cannot reload/reprocess
the AVIs ... This freeware is the solution ! |
US | ||
NEAT IMAGE | http://www.neatimage.com/download.html
click on "Neat Image" picture at right of page. |
ABSoft | FW | Easy noise reduction | |||
Keith's Image Stacker (Mac OS !) | No more link contact me ... | Keith Wiley | FW | Mac software ! Image stacking |
US | ||
BlackFrame NR | http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/blackframe.htm | Hot Pixels removal | |||||
Skeye | No more link contact me ... | FW | Combining astro images | ||||
iMerge | No more link contact me ... | J Grove | FW | Combining astro images | |||
Happix | http://astrosurf.com/happix/ | Vincent Cotrez | FW | astro images processing | FR | ||
PUREIMAGE | http://www.mediachance.com/pureimage/index.html | TW | Wavelet Noise suppression | US | |||
WaveletXplorer | ZIP | Cor | FW | Bilateral Wavelets | US |
Reminder : all the texts / pictures in this web site Copyright S. Weiller, 1998-2019 Permission granted to copy them, only for non commercial purpose if this site is clearly posted and cited as source. |
AUTOGUIDING
Guidemaster | http://www.guidemaster.de | Matthias Garzarolli | FW | US DE |
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STARTRACK | No more link contact me ... | David Ditch | FW | US | * | ||
CAMZOOM | http://members.aol.com/achay2/ Download on my site !! | Achay Doan | FW | Fr | BW | ||
GUIDECAM | http://members.aol.com/achay2/ Download on my site !! | Achay Doan | FW | Fr | * | ||
SSS2KTLE | No more link contact me ... | Albert van Duin | FW | US | upload TLE elements (for tracking satellites) to the SS2K (Vixen SkySensor 2000) | ||
GUIDEDOG | http://www.barkosoftware.com/GuideDog | Steve Barkes | FW | US |
PLANETARIUM et Cie
IRIS (SUNDOG) | http://www.cce.ufes.br/jair/fis4/PhysEd_51_Rings_Sun_Moon.pdf | Les Cowley | FW | Halo Simulation | |||
Worldwind | http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ | NASA | FW | Fly in 3D over Earth with a stunning 15 m/pixel resolution (US 1m) !!! | |||
Google Earth | http://earth.google.com/ | FW+ | Fly in 3D over Earth with the best available resolution on selected brownish zones !!! | ||||
GUIDE 7 | http://www.projectpluto.com/ | ||||||
DEEPSKY2000 | http://www.deepsky2000.com/ | ||||||
SKYGLOBE | http://astro4.ast.vill.edu/skyglobe.htm | ||||||
NAVIGATOR II | No more link contact me ... | ETX controler | |||||
Mars Previewer II | No more link contact me ... | ||||||
MoonPhase | No more link contact me ... | ||||||
SKYCHART III | http://www.southernstars.com/ Demo or buy | TW | |||||
Central Meridian of MARS | No more link contact me ... | Claude Duplessis | SW | M | 15 | ||
Cartes du Ciel -Sky Charts | http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/index.html | Patrick Chevalley | FW | Free (and famous) program to draw sky charts | M | ||
Virtual Atlas of the Moon | http://astrosurf.com/avl/UK_index.html | Patrick Chevalley & Christian Legrand. | FW | Incredible ! | M | ||
The Ultimate Messier Object Log (TUMOL) | http://www.davidpaulgreen.com/tumol.html | David Paul Green | FW | Large infos on Messier objects | US | ||
Overlooked Objects Log (OOLog) | http://www.davidpaulgreen.com/oolog.html | David Paul Green | FW | Overlooked Objects ! | US | ||
Computer programs and data related to satellite tracking | No more link contact me ... | FW | |||||
ISS Simulator | http://www.zen32156.zen.co.uk/ | Philip Masding | FW | Simulates aspect of ISS | US | ||
VSKYEVAL | http://www.astronomie.de/bibliothek/software/dings/vsky/virtual-sky.htm | ||||||
2003 Mars Simulation Stillness pictures Menu | No more link contact me ... | T.Ikemura | Every 30 min ! | US | |||
SKY CHART | No more link contact me ... | P.Chevalley | FW |
Reminder : all the texts / pictures in this web site Copyright S. Weiller, 1998-2010 Permission granted to copy them, only for non commercial purpose if this site is clearly posted and cited as source. |
MISCELLEANOUS SOFTWARES
Starmax | http://ggrillot.free.fr | Gilbert Grillot & Sylvain Weiller | FW | Star trails creator - automatic & very easy to use ! Also darks & flats ! JPG, BMP, FIT, TIFF | |||
mesXXI | http://pagesperso-orange.fr/mesxxi.durand/index.html | Jean-Claude Durand | FW | Mise en station - Telescope polar aligning | |||
KEYPAD-LX200 | Denis Joye | FW | Control the LX-200 from your PC (RS-232) | ||||
Autostitch | http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html#licensing | Matthew Brown | FW | Makes panoramas automatically | |||
PEAS | http://www.picb.ac.cn/~xushua/index.files/Download_PEAS.htm | Jan Grecner | FW | PERIODIC ERROR ANALYZING SOFTWARE | |||
ABERRATOR | http://aberrator.astronomy.net/ | ||||||
WinPos | No more link contact me ... | Rik Blok | |||||
SDK Logitech | No more link contact me ... | ||||||
CCD Calc | http://www.newastro.com/book_new/camera_app.html | Ron Wodaski | FW | Shows your FOV with different intruments | |||
Astrofot | No more link contact me ... | Peter Vasey | FW | CCD parameter calculator | US | ||
The Panorama Factory | http://www.panoramafactory.com/ | John Strait | FW | Panoramic pictures and mosaics | US | ||
Dimension 4 | http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/index.html | Rob Chambersv | FW | atomic clock to your PC | US | ||
Total Commander 8+ | http://www.ghisler.com | Christian Ghisler | Partagiciel | Best file tool, multi rename tool + lots lots more !!! | M | ||
Codecs (Divx...) | Make, read DIVx... | ||||||
Freewares mine :) | http://www.stargazing.net/AstroTips/english/index.html | FW mine ! | US | ||||
MIRE | http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/astrocam/files/calibration.jpg | Calibrate screens | |||||
DivFix | http://divfix.maxeline.com/divfix.html | Recover flawed avis | |||||
Niteview | http://niteview.software.informer.com/1.5/ | FW | Red screen | US | |||
DRIVERS !!! | http://www.input-drivers.com/ | All drivers for webcams, mouses, keyboard !!! | |||||
IR pictures | http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/infrared.htm | Filters | |||||
Olympus Camera Controller | No more link contact me ... | Peter Vasey | FW | US | |||
Nikon Coolpix: TheForce |
FW | Remote Shutter Software for Nikon Coolpix Cameras | US | ||||
Casio QV: Dicacontrol |
http://www.dicasoft.de/ | FW | Remote Shutter Software for Casio QV cameras | US | |||
DirectIO | http://www.direct-io.com/ | SW | Restores direct ports access under XP | US | |||
PortTalk | http://www.beyondlogic.org/porttalk/porttalk.zip | FW | Restores direct ports access under XP | US | |||
WinCircuit | http://alain.michel13.free.fr/ | Alain Michel | SW | Make your printed circuits | |||
Lossless AVI compresssion | HUFYUV 2.1.1 | FW | US | ||||
ATLAS MICHELIN | If you need a detailled road map of England or anywhere alse ... |
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AI's SCT Collimation Aid V1.1 | http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/attachment.php?s=7b19100d9fe7eb8977fc8334a5e74657&attachmentid=78394&d=1277420243 Miror in case ... http://sweiller.free.fr/Softwares/AI%27s%20SCT%20Collimation%20AID/AlsCollAidV11.zip |
Sheeny (Al) |
FW | ||||
MAC
NIH | http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/ | RSB | FW | Processing | ||
CANON 10D BIOS updates |
http://www.canon.co.jp/Imaging/EOS10D/10D_firmware-e.html | FW | US | |||
Lynkeos | http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lynkeos/Lynkeos-app-0-4.dmg?download | Jean-Etienne Lamiaud | FW | Processing of webcam images for OSX | FR US |
LINUX SOFTWARES
http://3demi.net/astro/qastrocam/doc
Qastrocam | http://3demi.net/astro/qastrocam/doc | Franck SICARD |
FW | Multifunction acquisition for Philips compatible Webcams |
FR | ||
ALE | No more link contact me ... | GPL | Registration | US | |||
LIN4ASTRO | http://www.linux-live-cd.org/?Lin4astro | Lin4Astro is a simplified linux distribution, contained in only 1 CD, and including all the stuff needed to acquire astronomical pictures using a webcam + much more !! | US |