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Star Stacker vs AstroShader Usage & Stats
Star Stacker allows you to import a sequence of star photos taken throughout the night and turn them into star trail images or a time lapse video.
After importing you can create the images and/or a time-lapse video with a few different effects.
- Full trails - every star at full brightness
- Faded trails - Stars get brighter as the process runs
- Shooting star - Like faded trails but the last image is brighter than any previous giving a shooting star effect
- Javelin - Both ends of the trail are faded
- Warp mode - zooms into the image stack slowly creating a warped effect. This will also affect the foreground so post processing may be required if the images have the foreground included.
You can also choose to save a video of the time-lapse based on the options used for the image stacking.
Can import images from your photos app. RAW files that have been recently imported from an SD card reader, may take a few minutes before the full resolution files are available.
There are resolution limits depending on the device being used and the memory it has:
- 6gb - 62mp
- 5gb - 62mp
- 4gb - 62mp
- 3gb - 42mp
- 2gb - 30mp
- Apple App Store
- Paid
- Photo & Video
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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
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Photo & Video
Store Rank
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