DeepSkyStacker

From Luc Coiffier:

DeepSkyStacker is for astrophotographers that simplifies all the pre-processing steps of deep sky pictures and is specialized in dealing with RAW files from DSLRs. 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 color and monochrome FITS files. Stacking method average, median, kappa-sigma clipping, auto adaptive weighted average, entropy weighted average.

Version adds the following features: comet stacking with star freeze effect, batch stacking, manual star and comet editing, cosmetic options, and canon 40D support.

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