Astrophotography RAW
Workflow & Culling Guides
Practical, zero-fluff walkthroughs for sorting RAW frames, spotting cloud dips on 2D scatter plots, and feeding pristine calibration data into Siril, DeepSkyStacker, and PixInsight.
How to Pre-Sort DSLR RAW Files for Siril Stacking in Under 60 Seconds
Siril's automated scripts require strict /lights, /darks, /flats, and /biases subdirectories. Learn how to separate hundreds of raw exposures mathematically using 2D scatter plots.
How to Cull Bad Astrophotography Frames Fast Without Squinting at Thumbnails
Stop wasting 45 minutes manual-blinking 400 heavy RAW files. Learn why sigma clipping cannot fix cloud haze, and how to pinpoint ruined exposures in seconds on a 2D coordinate plot.
DeepSkyStacker (DSS) vs. Siril: Which Stacking Tool Fits Your RAW Workflow?
An objective head-to-head comparison for DSLR and mirrorless astrophotographers. Compare 32-bit floating point precision, photometric color calibration, and raw file intake pipelines.
One universal license key unlocks AstroPlot RAW on both Windows and macOS. 100% offline & private.
Tested and verified for Windows 10 and Windows 11 (64-bit).
In active development for Apple Silicon (M1–M4) and Intel Macs.