AstroShader
Astrophotography and night sky
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AstroShader is an astrophotography app for capturing, stacking and editing. All you need is a stand, tripod, telescope or rock (to lean your phone on).

AstroShader functions differently to traditional astrophotography workflows by aligning and stacking live during the image capture process. No need to transfer images to a computer to align and stack them separately.

To take an image follow these steps:
• Use a stand, tripod, telescope mount (or lean your iPhone on a rock).
• Zoom in on stars and set focus manually.
• Set the exposure time, ISO and white balance.
• Set the number of exposures to be automatically aligned and stacked.
• Calibrate your images from the edit tools.
• After the capture is complete you can edit and save your image—including as 16bit TIFF.
• You can open images directly to use the edit tools in AstroShader - rather following a new image capture.

Image capture options include:
• Number of exposures to be aligned and stacked
• Exposure time
• ISO
• White balance
• Camera type
• Countdown timer
• Manual focus
• Pause the capture to reposition iPhone or telescope

Edit options include:
• Background extraction
• x5 Histogram curves for fine tonal adjustment
• x3 sharpen layers each with radius and intensity with layer blending rather than chaining
• Brightness (low light enhancement)
• Saturation
• Black point
• Temperature
• Tint
• Save format options; HEIF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF
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4.34 out of 5

32 ratings in United States

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Great app! One issue

u_got_reviewed on

This app is the greatest free astrophotography on the market by far. The UI is easy, and it takes amazing photos when used right. One issue. The thing crashes when taking long (like 40 sec+) exposures. After a certain amount of time it just kinda quits. Still an amazing app, and I would absolutely recommend to others!

It needs to be a little functions.

The man with many talents on

In my opinion I think that it is missing some more functions. Such as automatic white balance, iso, and exposure time. If you could make it set the white balance by what filter you are using. Also the app really need’s better editing and the ability to stack photos manually and automatically aligned stacking. But this is a very good app for of what it is and it has so much potential. Thank you for reading and please make these features!

No merging.

yendorcire on

There doesn't seem to be a way merge the stacked photos. The point of taking multiple pictures in low light, which is a key feature in this app, is to combine them into a single picture to multiply the light gathered by several images.

Major improvement possibility.

Yingtong master on

Honestly if you combined this app with a plate solver like astrometry.net has this would be the best astrophotography app by far. You’d be able to see where you are and where your target is without 2 hours of being lost, especially in high bortle skies. Regardless this app is amazing for astrophotography and is so much better than the other subscription needing ones. Only nightcap is a real competitor but I feel it works better outside the telescope.

PLEASE SO MUCH POTENTIAL

horrible to manu ads on

I really dearly ask you that yall work more towards makeing this app like a stacking software such as registaxx. It could allow me to stack and process space objects the auto align feature works well but please you will be a one of a kind app if you take that path towards becomeing a software for stacking and processing images. And I can assure many others will be looking for a app of this style. Also could you allow videos to be imported from camera roll to be aligned and stacked that would be very helpful even if all this becomes payware I will get it in a heartbeat please consider this! Thank you~ a loving supporter.

Worked good, but crashes on my 15 Pro

adristel on

I used this on my iPhone X and got some pretty impressive photos for what it was, but I upgraded to the 15 Pro and now the app crashes whenever I start it.

Great app

Big love carrot on

This app is crazy good at Astro images with a phone mount on a telescope. And for free it’s absolutely worth the 5 stars. A way to save each frame to camera roll as they are taken would be great but I can’t complain at all about the app in its current form

Great free app, needs Apple Watch trigger

Bobhert1 on

Very cool app but operability with the Apple Watch would make framing and triggering a lot more convenient.

great app with a few bugs

informal_coconut on

the app is simple and straightforward. the ui is easy to navigate and it shows you the important stuff without obstructing the viewfinder. the first few tries have worked extremely well on my 14PM, with andromeda galaxy visible in a bortle 6 area, but recently, the images have become blurry and low res. the first attempt got me 12MP but now i get a resolution of some 192x256, which isnt even 1MP. it happened when i turned on pixel binning and left the phone outside for about 10 mins in subzero (34F) temperatures. pls fix this since im really looking forward to seeing this app succeed

Great app. Would get 5stars if there was an apple watch app

macgyver58 on

This is a great app but the one thing I wish it had was the ability to remote trigger from my apple watch. I can do this with the iphones built in camera app but not with astroshader. I would prefer not to touch the phone and cause any vibration. At least there is a delay you can use but an apple watch app would make this perfect

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App Info

Category
Photo Video
Publisher
George Cherry
Languages
English
Recent version
1.0.16 (3 weeks ago )
Released on
Nov 29, 2022 (1 year ago )
Last updated
3 weeks ago