The Moon handheld tonight, nebulae through your telescope tomorrow: AstroStackerPro stacks hundreds of shots and pulls out what the eye can’t see. No account, no subscription, all on your phone.
Photo taken with a phone, not a screenshot of the app.
Two photos saved by the app during the beta. The buttons show the steps of the pipeline: the single shot, the stack and the result of the app’s Editor, with the adjustments used. The capture data comes from the metadata AstroStackerPro writes into every file: open the original and check it.
Moon preset, phone on a telescope · ISO 50 · 1/250 s · a single shot, as the sensor delivered it · night of 20 July 2026 · AstroStackerPro 1.0.1
Moon preset, phone on a telescope · ISO 50 · 1/250 s · 29 of 30 frames aligned · night of 20 July 2026 · AstroStackerPro 1.0.1
Processed in the AstroStackerPro Editor: auto adjustment, contrast +35%, sharpness 40% · exported as maximum-quality JPEG
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Starry sky preset. August 2026. A summer night photographed with AstroStackerPro.
Processed in the AstroStackerPro Editor: auto adjustment, exposure +27%, contrast +25%, sharpness 21%; the light-pollution filter, set to auto, made no change · exported as maximum-quality JPEG
Open the originalOpen the originalFour concrete tools that grow with you, from the Moon shot handheld tonight to deep sky on your star tracker.
Stack up to 200 frames in the manual control, with sigma-clip: it discards satellites, planes and hot pixels, then averages the rest to pull out stars and detail invisible to the naked eye, right on your phone. Processing starts once the session ends, with a preview of the composite while it works. The work that used to belong to a laptop and stacking software now happens entirely on the phone.
Point your phone: stars, constellations, the Moon and planets appear in the viewfinder, placed using GPS and motion sensors. Field recognition runs once the stack is done and tells you which constellation you framed. The planner tells you what’s worth shooting tonight (Moon, planets, Milky Way), along with an estimate of your area’s Bortle class.
Six ready-made presets, from the Moon to deep sky: pick a subject and start shooting. The planner tells you how dark your sky is (estimated Bortle class), Moon times and tonight’s visible planets for your location. Viewfinder with focus peaking, automatic star alignment after the shot, and a solar safety warning the first time you open the app.
No account, no subscriptions, zero network connections: processing stays entirely on your phone. Photos go to the “AstroStackerPro” album and you can import existing shots for stacking and editing. On iPhone a capture session always saves two files, JPEG and 16-bit TIFF; on Android the TIFF is optional; from the Editor you pick one format at a time.
Start tonight without buying anything and grow at your own pace. When you move to deep sky, mount your phone on your rig: capture, alignment, stacking and export all happen on the phone, the laptop stays home. It doesn’t replace the tripod or the telescope.
Just your phone, resting on a wall or a mini tripod
Zero cost: go out tonight and bring home your first photo of the sky.
Any photo tripod, even a cheap one
With a steady base you stack more frames, and every extra frame is noise that goes away.
Tripod, star tracker and often a telescope: your rig, with the phone mounted on top
The mount tracks, the phone captures and stacks: to get started you don’t need a dedicated astro camera, and the laptop stays home.
Everything that ships at launch, and what comes after.
Ideas under technical evaluation.
A minimal gallery showing the workflow, from capture to export.
AstroStackerPro makes no network connections: no accounts, no analytics, no ad trackers. All processing happens on the device. Period.
Read the Privacy PolicyPeople who want to start astrophotography tonight: for the Moon, starry skies and star trails, a phone and something to rest it on are enough.
People shooting the Moon, the Milky Way and the night sky who want tools more serious than a basic night mode.
People who want a mobile pipeline that includes stacking, noise reduction and export to formats like 16-bit TIFF.
People who care about staying in control of their shots and prefer an offline app to a cloud service.
AstroStackerPro is in beta: public on iPhone via TestFlight, in closed testing on Android via Google Play. Join in and help us make it better.
