App: AstroImager
Developer: CloudMakers, s. r. o.
Genres: Photo & Video, Education

AstroImager is a powerful, but easy to use image capture application for the astrophotography.

In this version the built-in INDIGO drivers support the following hardware:

CCD, focuser and wheel simulator drivers,
Atik CCD and wheel drivers,
ZWO ASI CCD, wheel and focuser drivers (doesn't work with non-S ASI120MM/MC),
IIDC CCD driver (both USB and FireWire cameras),
QHY CCD and filter wheel drivers,
SBIG CCD and filter wheel driver (vendor SDK must be installed),
Meade DSI CCD driver,
Orion SSAG/QHY5 CCD driver,
StarlightXpress CCD and wheel drivers,
QSI CCD and wheel driver,
FLI CCD and wheel driver,
Apogee CCD driver,
Moravian Instruments CCD and wheel driver,
ToupTek CCD driver,
AltairAstro CCD driver,
SVBONY CCD driver,
Orion StarShootG CCD driver,
RisingCam, EHD and Levenhuk CCD driver,
MallinCam CCD driver,
Omegon CCD driver,
OMGA CCD driver,
UVC (USB Video Class, e.g. SVBONY SV205) CCD driver,
Trutek (TruTech) wheel driver,
Brightstar Quantum wheel driver,
Xagyl wheel driver,
Optec wheel driver,
Manual filter wheel driver,
Shoestring FCUSB driver,
Focuser USB v3 driver,
PrimaluceLab focuser driver,
WeMacro Rail USB and BT drivers,
MJKZZ macro rail USB and BT drivers,
PegasusAstro Prodigy, Falcon, Indigo, DMFC, UPB, PPB and FlatMaster drivers,
RigelSys nSTEP and nFOCUS drives,
MoonLite focuser driver,
Optec focuser driver,
LakesideAstro focuser driver,
Deep Sky Dad AF1, AF2 and AF3 focuser driver,
Baader Planetarium SteelDrive II focuser driver,
AstroGadget FocusDreamPro focuser driver,
Lunatico Limpet/Armadillo/Platypus Focuser/Rotator/Powerbox drivers,
Optec Pyxis Rotator driver,
PlaneWave/Celestron focuser driver,
MyPro2 focuser driver,
RoboFocus focuser driver,
ASTROMECHANICS ASCOM Canon EF Lens Controller focuser driver,
Unihedron SQM sky quality meter driver,
Geoptik flat driver,
Artesky flatbox driver,
Lacerta Flat Box Controller driver,
Optec Flip-Flat driver,
USB_Dewpoint V1 and V2 driver,
Lunatico AAG CloudWatcher driver,
Astromi.ch MGBox v1/v2, MBox, MGPBox and PBox driver,
Interactive Astronomy SkyAlert drivers,
ASTROMECHANICS PLM aux driver.

but it can be used as a client to any remote or local INDIGO server with any supported cameras, filter wheel or focuser as well.

AstroImager also controls the set point cooling and the mechanical shutter of the attached camera (if available). It can preview or capture and save images with any count, duration and time lapse, browse captured images, zoom and stretch them automatically or manually, measure FWHM, HFD and the drift of a selected star and plate-solve image using public or local astrometry.net service.

AstroImager has simple sequencer to capture sequences of images with configurable duration, time lapse, count, base file name, binning and filter.

Images are stored in FITS, XISF, TIFF or JPEG formats with user defined keywords and can be debayered during preview. Sequences of images can be saved in video formats including AVI and SER as well.

Even if it can be used separately, it is meant to be used together with AstroTelescope and AstroGuider. If you want to use AstroImager, AstroGuider and AstroTelescope, you can consider to purchase INDIGO A1 (All-in-One) application instead.

AstroImager is a member of our astrophotography tools family including also AstroDSLR, AstroTelescope, AstroGuider, FITS Preview, INDIGO Server for OS X, INDIGO Control Panel, INDIGO Dashboard, INDIGO Script Editor, Astrometry for OS X and INDIGO Sky linux distribution for RaspberryPi.

Release notes:
Touptek and Touptek OEM SDK updated,
ESSATO2 support added to Primaluce driver,
INDIGO framework version 2.0.258.