DeepSkyStacker

Luc Coiffier

DeepSkyStacker is a freeware for astrophotographers that simplifies all the pre-processing steps of deep sky pictures and is specialized in dealing with RAW files from DSLRs (Canon, Nikon, Olympus...). Main Features: Automatic registration of a set of light frames, Sub pixel registration, Automatic derotation, Automatic creation and use of offsets, flats and darks frames, Sub pixel alignment and stacking. Supported bitmaps formats: RAW Files from DSLRs, 8, 16 and 32 bit colour and monochrome TIFF files, 8, 16, 32 and 64 bit colour and monochrome FITS files, JPEG, BMP, PNG. Stacking method: average, median, kappa-sigma clipping, auto adaptive weighted average, entropy weighted average.