ASTAP

Astrometric (plate) solver, stacking of images, photometry and FITS viewer

This is a free stacking and astrometric solver (plate solver) program for deep sky images. In works with astronomical images in the FITS format, but can import RAW DSLR images or XISF, PGM, PPM, TIF, PNG and JPG images. It has a powerful FITS viewer and the native astrometric solver can be used by CCDCiel, NINA, APT or SGP imaging programs to synchronise the mount based on an image taken. IMPORTANT: it's highly recommended to install 'ASTAP-w08stars' and either 'ASTAP-d20stars' or 'ASTAP-d50stars' in order to access all ASTAP's features.