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Voyager Image Display
http://members.optusnet.com.au/serpentis
A shareware Windows 95/98/NT/2000 based image processing program that can read and enhance images from various NASA spacecraft.
The Imaging Source
http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/products/software/iccaptureas/
Offers IC Capture.AS, control and acquisition software for astronomy cameras. Capture single frames and uncompressed image sequences.
PV-WAVE
http://www.vni.com/products/wave/
[commercial - multiplatform] Advanced visual data analysis software.
Pleiades Astrophotro: PixInsight
Modular, open-architecture, portable image processing software platform specializing in technical image processing tasks such as astronomical imaging. It is available for Linux/UNIX, Mac OSX and MS Windows.
Picture Window Image Editing Software
Picture Window is a popular tool among serious amateur astrophotographers. By Digital Light and Color.
MIRIAD - Multichannel Image Reconstruction, Image Analysis and Display
http://bima.astro.umd.edu/miriad/
[open source - Unix, VMS] A toolbox in the form of an environment with a large set of moderate-sized programs which perform individual tasks involving calibration, mapping, deconvolution and image analysis of interferometric data.
MIIPS
http://www.chara.gsu.edu/~gudehus/miips.html
[open source - OpenVMS/Unix] Multipurpose Interactive Image Processing System does astronomical image analysis. The main package runs on OpenVMS, but many subsets can run on Unix. All source code is provided.
MaxIm DL
[commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT/2000] Image processing and CCD camera control software for astronomical imaging. Supports Apogee, Celestron, FLI, HiSIS, Meade, SBIG, and Starlight Xpress CCD cameras; video cameras, autoguiders, and filter wheels. ASCOM compliant.
ISDA - Irregularly Spaced Data Analysis
http://jupiter.aai.ee/~pelt/soft.htm
[Free - MSDOS, dosemu] Program to analyse irregularly spaced time series - variable star light curves.
IRAF - Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
[open source - Unix, OpenVMS] A general-purpose software system for the reduction and analysis of astronomical data. IRAF is written and supported by the IRAF programming group at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO) in Tucson, Arizona.
IDL - Interactive Data Language
[commercial - multiplatform] Data analysis, visualization, and cross-platform application development software.
ESO-MIDAS: Image Data Analysis System
[open source - Linux/Unix, VAX/VMS/OpenVMS] General tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including stellar and surface photometry, image sharpening and decomposition, as well as imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation.
Dattrax AstroTracker
http://www.dattrax.com/astrotracker/
Astronomy image capture software that tracks and aligns long-exposure image data to give rich, sharp photos. Real-time view and tracking prevents telescope shake affecting images.
CCDSoFT
http://www.bisque.com/Products/CCDSoft/
Image processing and camera control software providing control for CCD cameras, performing image processing, data reduction, and scripted data acquisition.
Auriga Imaging
Auriga Imaging's program RegiStar automatically registers (aligns) astrophotos -- no user intervention required.
AstroArt
[commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] A complete software product for analysis and processing of astronomical images. With the built-in star atlas based on the Guide Star Catalogue, it is also possible to perform astrometric and photometric calibration on your images.
AIPS++
http://aips2.nrao.edu/docs/html/aips++.html
[open source - Unix, WinNT] The next generation AIPS software.
AIPS - Astronomical Image Processing System
[open source - Unix, and VMS] A software package for interactive (and, optionally, batch) calibration and editing of radio interferometric data and for the calibration, construction, display and analysis of astronomical images made from those data using Fourier synthesis methods.