Image Acquisition and Processing Software


Video and webcam acquisition and preprocessing

Registax

Excellent software for stacking webcam and video frames. Reads AVI and BMP files. Impressive wavelet filtering tool. Freeware by Cor Berrevoets. Home page

Astrosnap

Webcam image acquisition software with several added functions: Realtime image integration and alignment (track on star or planet). Support for Steve Chamber's long exposure modification to Philips Vesta webcams. Freeware written by Axel Canicio. Home page (in French)

AstroStack

Stacking of planetary images (AVI or BMP). Auto or manual alignment (correlation). Several filters including Van Cittert and Richardson-Lucy deconvolution. Freeware (v2.1) written by Robert Stekelenburg. Home page.

AstroVideo

Advanced video integration software from COAA Observatory. Automatic image alignment, dark frame subtraction and a lot more. Shareware (21 day trial period) from COAA in Portugal. Home page


Astronomical image processing

IRIS

Powerful astronomical image processing software. Wealth of functions. Image acquisition from Audine CCD cameras and webcams. Freeware written by Christian Buil. Home page (in French and English)

AstroArt

Commercial astronomical image acquisition and processing software. Very good support for Starlight Xpress CCD cameras. Also interface to video and webcams. Demo version available for download. Home page

PixInSight LE

The successor to SGBNR (noise reduction). Now a fully-fledged image processing program. The Limited Edition is freeware Home page


General purpose image processing

The Gimp

Powerful image processing software from the Linux world. Now also a Windows port. Freeware (GPL) Home page

Helicon Filter

Image enhancement software. Good noise reduction filter (included in free version). Home page


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