Astrophotography Resources

Other Content Creators

James Lamb YouTube Channel

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Cuiv, The Lazy Geek YouTube Channel

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Planning Software

Astronomy Tools

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Clear Outside

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Stellarium

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Cartes du Ciel

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Acquisition Software

NINA

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Astro Photography Tool (APT)

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Sequence Generator Pro (SGP)

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BackyardEOS

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Voyager

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Nebulosity

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SharpCap

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PHD2 Guiding

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Processing Software

Astro Pixel Processor (APP)

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DeepSkyStacker (DSS)

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PixInsight

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Astro Art

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Books

The Astrophography Sky Atlas

Seventy full-color charts cover the entire sky, with stars down to 9th magnitude and over 2000 deep-sky objects plotted in their correct size and shape, including many nebulae not found in visually-oriented atlases.

• 416 emission nebulae and supernova remnants, including the complete Sharpless (Sh2) and RCW catalogs.
• 171 reflection nebulae, including the complete van den Bergh (vdB) catalog.
• 146 planetary nebulae, including the complete Abell catalog
• 52 dark nebulae and molecular clouds
• 792 galaxies (larger than 3 arcminutes)
• 38 galaxy groups from the Abell and Hickson catalogs
• 108 globular clusters (larger than 5 arcminutes)
• 309 open clusters (larger than 5 arcminutes)

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The Astrophotography Manual

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The Deep-sky Imaging Primer

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