Which Imaging Software is Recommended

dmtarry

Hi All

I am new to astronomy being bought some equipment as a sixtieth birthday present and need some help to determine the best software packages to download for Imaging, Stacking and processing. I will start with the moon and planets and see where this takes me as not sure the kit will be right for DSO?

Equipment

Celestron Nester Evolution 6

Ipad Pro (Operate Evolution via SkySafari 5 Plus)

Laptop - Dell Latitude E74440 - i7 2.10 Ghz 16Gb Ram - 256Gb SSd - Windows 10 (usb3)

ZWO-ASI 224 Colour camera (usb3)

My thinking to date was

Capture - Astro Live, Fire Capture, SharpCap?

Frame Selection - PIPP?

Stacking - AutoStakkert2?

Processing - Startools ?

Is this setup what you would suggest? have i missed out anything? Lap top due to be delivered this week so i can start playing with things.

David

wagner trindade

Capture - Astro Live, Fire Capture, SharpCap?

I have the same camera, but different telescope. Fire Capture and SharpCap are very nice (I prefer FC).

Frame Selection - PIPP?

It is ok, altough I use the frame selection in AutoStakkert2. Give both a try....

Stacking - AutoStakkert2?

Very good and I think it is kind of standard for planetary.

Processing - Startools ?

I don't know Startools. I've already tried Iris (very powerful and also very tricky) but I normally open the stacked image from AS!2 in Registax 6. It's an old code but its wavelets routine reveals lots of details in the astrophotos.