Observed arrival · 2026-09-03
Akastroid Turns Telescope File Piles into Finished Astrophotos
Offline Mac software that stacks, calibrates, aligns, colour-corrects, and exports astrophotographs from telescope, camera, and planetary-video files.
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Akastroid processes folders of astrophotography files locally, covering calibration, alignment, stacking, gradient removal, colour, and planetary-video workflows. Its examples specify 134 M42 frames with 20 darks, 17 flats, and 4 bias frames, plus a Saturn capture reduced to 4,484 selected frames from 17,934. The page says processing decisions are logged with reasons and that the system uses a catalogue of measured star colours for field matching.
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