Stark Labs provides software for amateur astrophotographers designed to be simple and easy to use. They are designed to be user-friendly and to make capturing your images as easy as possible while still providing the flexibility and power you need. Nobody likes standing outside in a cold field, spending time with gloves off fighting with an awkward user-interface.  I know.  I've done this. At the same time, nobody wants a program that is simple to use, but too limited to be of real use. Here, you'll find Nebulosity, a cross-platform capture and processing application designed to give you powerful, purpose-built tools for DSO image capture and processing - the tools you really need to produce fantastic images. You'll also find a wide range of free utilities to make astrophotography easier and more enjoyable.

Latest News:
The results are in from the 2007 AstroPhoto Insight survey run by SkyInsight and in the category of Guiding Software, there was a stand-out winner - PHD Guiding. Out of over 700 votes, PHD Guiding came in #1, beating the second most popular piece of software, the de facto standard Maxim DL, by over 50%. In fact, it did better than ACP, Astro IIDC, Equinox, Guide Dog, GuideMaster, K3CCDTools, Maxim Essentials, Maxim DSLR, and Meade Envisage... combined! I knew many people used PHD Guiding, but to say I was stunned at these results is an understatement on a grand scale. I wrote PHD Guiding to take the hassle out of accurate autoguiding and I give it away free as a way to help pay back the amateur community I've gotten so much from. With results like these, it's clear PHD Guiding has helped a lot of amateurs enjoy the hobby more and take better shots. Thank you all for helping make PHD Guiding what it is today.

- 4/11/08: Nebulosity 1.7.4 released (Windows and OS X). Bug fixes, small UI updates, fixes to QHY 2Pro code.

- 4/2/08: PHD Guiding 1.8.3 in pre-release (Windows and OS X). Support for Starlight Xpress SXV / SXVF / Lodestar cameras & setpoint.exe bug fix

- 4/2/08: Nebulosity 1.7.3 released (Windows and OS X). Bug fixes & support for Starlight Xpress Lodestar

- 4/1/08: DSLR Shutter 1.9 released (Windows and OS X): Abort button bug fix

- 3/16/08: Nebulosity 1.7.1 and PHD Guiding 1.8.2 released (Windows and OS X). Bug fix on DSI III and Mac launching issue fixes.

- 3/13/08: Nebulosity 1.7 released (Windows and OS X).

- 3/12/08: PHD Guiding 1.8 released (Windows and OS X). DSI III, Orion Guider, PL-130 cameras added & real-time graphing

- 3/6/08: Two new tutorials posted. Video tutorials on using PHD and Nebulosity for guiding and capture





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