Professional tools for astrophotographers — a smart session planning app and advanced processing scripts that pull every detail from your deep-sky data.
Built by astrophotographers for astrophotographers
AstroMax was born out of a passion for exploring the cosmos and the frustration of not having tools that fit the real needs of amateur and semi-professional astrophotographers.
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AstroMax App
A comprehensive desktop application for planning and managing astrophotography sessions. It integrates target visibility, weather conditions, field rotation, and intelligent scheduling across an entire night — everything in one place.
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Processing Scripts
A collection of advanced Python and Bash scripts that automate the most demanding steps in post-processing. From automated stacking and calibration to custom stretch algorithms that extract the maximum from your data.
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App Development
The application was developed through a multi-month iterative process, testing every feature during real imaging nights. The focus is on a clean, intuitive interface backed by professional power — no unnecessary complexity.
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Script Development
Each script was created as a solution to a specific problem encountered in the field. They have been tested on hundreds of hours of raw data across different cameras, telescopes, and conditions — from light-polluted skies to dark sites.
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Tools that elevate your astrophotography
Full observatory control in one desktop app — GoTo & plate solving, autofocus, guiding, automated sequencing and more. 30-day free trial, one-time license.
⚙ Nothing extra to install — AstroMax talks to your ASCOM drivers itself. ASCOM Remote is optional, for running your rig from another PC.
✦ MILESTONE — JULY 2026
Today, we reached another major milestone with the completion of the preview of
AstroMax Quasar — and the result looks truly professional.
After nearly two months of intensive real-world testing, AstroMax Quasar has proven to be
exceptionally stable, reliable, and powerful. We use it regularly to control
our astrophotography equipment and imaging sessions, and it continues to perform flawlessly.
Our goal was clear: to create astrophotography software that combines powerful advanced features and
extensive configuration options with a clean, intuitive, and user-friendly experience.
AstroMax Quasar offers greater flexibility and more advanced control than ASIAIR,
while providing a simpler and more intuitive user experience than N.I.N.A.
Powerful enough for advanced astrophotographers. Simple enough to enjoy from the very first session.
AstroMax Quasar — advanced astrophotography control, made simple.
The future of astrophotography imaging is getting closer.
★ BEST VALUE — SAVE €40
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The AstroMax Box
Everything we make, in one package
Capture the night with Quasar, process it with Quantum, and keep the
PixInsight scripts for the work you still like doing there. The whole chain, from the first sub to the finished image.
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AstroMax Quasar
Observatory control
€60
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AstroMax Quantum
Post-processing, standalone
€60
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AstroMax Scripts
For PixInsight
€20
Bought separately €140
€100
One payment · lifetime licences · all future updates included
How to activate — we need your Computer IDs
The three products use three separate keys, each tied to the machine it runs on, so please send all of them together:
1️⃣ Quasar → open it, 🔑 License, copy the Computer ID.
2️⃣ Quantum → open it, 🔑 License at the bottom, copy the Computer ID.
3️⃣ Scripts → open any AstroMax script in PixInsight, 🔑 License, “Select Computer ID”, copy it.
Send all three with your payment confirmation to — your keys arrive by email within 24 h. Reference / description: AstroMax Box + your Computer IDs Every product has a 30-day free trial — try all three before you pay anything.
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Full observatory control — Quasar
AstroMax Quasar
Full observatory control from one window — and it arrives complete. AstroMax talks to your ASCOM drivers itself, plate-solves from its own star catalogue, and guides with its own guider. Windows 10/11 (64-bit).
✓ Nothing extra to install. ASCOM Remote, PHD2 and ASTAP are all optional — AstroMax has its own ASCOM bridge, its own plate solver and its own guider built in. Use the external tools if you prefer them; nothing is required.
Plate solving inside the app — its own 99 MB star catalogue ships with it, so there is no multi-gigabyte catalogue to download. ASTAP only for blind solves.
Its own ASCOM bridge — speaks to your drivers directly. ASCOM Remote optional, for controlling the rig from another PC.
Five camera SDKs built in — ZWO, QHY, ToupTek, PlayerOne, Moravian. No ASCOM camera driver needed, and a main and guide camera of the same brand work together — which that brand's own ASCOM driver often cannot do.
AstroMax Guide — its own multi-star guider: when one star fades, the others carry the measurement. PHD2 still supported if you want it.
Advanced plan sequencer — multi-target plans, filter sets, dithering, triggers, automatic meridian flip and a recovery watchdog. It runs the night on its own.
Advanced sky maps — live framing rectangle, field-of-view preview, rise/set and visibility timing, mosaic planner.
Autofocus — V-curve & hyperbolic fitting, with temperature and filter-offset triggers
3-point polar alignment with drift measurement
Fast binary frame transfer — a 26 MP sub lands in about a second and a half
Built for low-power mini PCs, not just big desktops
One payment, lifetime license. After payment, open the app → License → copy your Computer ID and send it to — your activation key arrives by email within 24 h.
Bank: Revolut Bank UAB, Konstitucijos ave. 21B, 08130 Vilnius, Lithuania
Correspondent BIC:CHASDEFX
Reference / description: AstroMax Quasar + your Computer ID
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Available Now — macOS & Windows
AstroMax Quantum V1
A complete post-processing application that runs on its own — PixInsight is not required. The AstroMax processing you know from the scripts, rebuilt as a program: mono and OSC stretching, narrowband palettes, curves and tones, masks, star handling, mosaics, plate solving and colour calibration, all in one window.
✓ Colour calibration without a Gaia install. Quantum reads ASTAP’s own V50 star database, so there is no separate multi-gigabyte catalogue to download.
Mono & OSC stretching — SHO, HOO, HSO, HOS palettes with Easy Palette previews
Linear Fit, background neutralisation, SPCC colour calibration
Curves, tones, saturation, region and star masks
Separate stars, stretch them apart, recombine — magenta and SCNR on the stars only
Mosaics: star alignment, blending, FOV planner
Plate solving with ASTAP · BlurX / NoiseX / StarX and GraXpert built into the flow
Full-size detail window, undo at every step, one shared workspace folder
€60One-time purchase All future V1 updates included
🔄 Check for updates from time to time. New versions are published on the same download links above — the page always shows the newest one. Your licence key keeps working; simply install over the old version.
🍎 Which Mac do you have? Apple menu → About This Mac. If it says a chip (M1, M2, M3, M4), take Apple Silicon; if it says an Intel processor, take Intel.
Bank: Revolut Bank UAB, Konstitucijos ave. 21B, 08130 Vilnius, Lithuania
Correspondent BIC:CHASDEFX
Reference / description: AstroMax Quantum + your Computer ID
How to activate (please read — we need your Computer ID!):
1️⃣ Open AstroMax Quantum and click the 🔑 License button at the bottom of the window.
2️⃣ Your Computer ID is shown there — copy it (Ctrl+C / Cmd+C).
3️⃣ Send the Computer ID together with your payment confirmation to .
You will receive your activation key by email within 24 h.
⚠️ The Quantum key is separate from the key for the PixInsight scripts, and without your Computer ID we cannot generate it.
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AstroMax Scripts
A curated set of PixInsight scripts for deep-sky image processing. Download, install, and immediately improve the quality of your results.
Advanced PixInsight processing workflows
Custom stretch algorithms (STF, GHS, ArcSinh)
Noise reduction & background extraction
Star removal & sharpening tools
Detailed installation guide included
€20One-time purchase All future updates included
✓ 30-day free trial — no payment required to get started
Bank: Revolut Bank UAB, Konstitucijos ave. 21B, 08130 Vilnius, Lithuania
Correspondent BIC:CHASDEFX
Reference / description: AstroMax Scripts + your Computer ID
How to activate (please read — we need your Computer ID!):
1️⃣ Open any AstroMax script in PixInsight and click the 🔑 License button (bottom of the window).
2️⃣ Your Computer ID is shown there — click “Select Computer ID” — select it and copy it (Ctrl+C / Cmd+C).
3️⃣ Send the Computer ID together with your payment confirmation to .
You will receive your activation key by email within 24 h — one key activates ALL AstroMax scripts on that computer.
⚠️ Without your Computer ID we cannot generate your key, so please include it with every payment.
▶ Video Tutorials
Watch it done, then do it yourself
Reading about processing is one thing — watching every slider move is another. On the AstroHopper channel each tool is walked through on real data, from the raw master to the finished image, with the reasoning behind every decision.
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The AstroMax scripts, step by step
Full walkthroughs of EasyStretch, RAW, StarStretch, NB Mix and FOV & Mosaic Blend — which slider does what, when to reach for it, and how to recognise when you have gone too far. Recorded on real data, mistakes included.
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AstroMax Quasar — running your rig
Setting up and running a complete imaging session with AstroMax Quasar: connecting the mount, camera and focuser, planning the night, and letting the rig work while you sleep.
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Techniques and real projects
Mosaics, narrowband palettes, blending different focal lengths, and rescuing data you thought was lost — start to finish, with every step explained rather than skipped.
A complete guide from first steps with a DSLR to advanced narrowband imaging. Available in Croatian and English — free of charge.
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Hrvatski
Astrofotografija — Umjetnost i Znanost
45 stranica · PDF · ~10 MB
Cjeloviti vodič od prvih koraka s DSLR kamerom do naprednog narrowband setupa. Pokriva opremu, snimanje, kalibraciju, obradu u Sirilu i PixInsightu, tamno nebo i česte greške.
A complete guide from first steps with a DSLR to advanced narrowband setup. Covers equipment, imaging, calibration, processing in Siril and PixInsight, dark skies, and common mistakes.
