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RC-Astro stand alone tools now
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 by Richard Harris
RC-Astro tools are moving beyond the plugin-only workflow. BlurXTerminator, StarXTerminator, and NoiseXTerminator are now available through a new stand-alone RC-Astro command-line interface, giving astrophotographers, developers, and astronomy software projects a more flexible way to use RC-Astro...

PixInsight for Apple silicon Macs lands with updates already
Monday, May 25, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
Right on the heels of the newest release, the PixInsight Team has released a new version of PixInsight: 1.9.4 Lockhart build 1693. This release provides stability improvements and bug fixes on all supported operating systems. The update focuses on making the application more reliable across platform...

Automating Astrophotography with PULSAR
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
PULSAR is a general purpose software system for reduction and processing of astronomical CCD and CMOS imaging data. Each tool performs a single well defined operation on FITS images, and the tools compose into automated pipelines that carry your work from raw frames to calibrated, combined, and enha...

What is a FITS astrophotography file
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 by Richard Harris
When I first started out in astrophotography, I remember squinting at a folder of strange .fits files and wondering what on Earth I had gotten myself into. After a long night under the stars with my telescope and camera, these files were the fruits of my labor - yet if you clicked on ...
