OpenLiveStacker

Artyom Beilis

About this app

Open Live Stacker is an application for Electronically Assisted Astronomy - EAA and Astrophotography that can use an external or internal camera for imaging and performs live stacking.

Supported Cameras:

- ASI ZWO Cameras
- ToupTek and Meade (based on ToupTek)
- USB Video Class cameras like webcam, SVBony sv105
- DSLR/DSLM support using gphoto2
- Internal Android Camera

Main Features:

- Live Stacking
- Automatic and Manual stretch
- Plate solving
- Calibration frames: darks, flats, dark-flats

Ratings and reviews

It seems like a very capable app, but it is often quite buggy and will crash 50% of the time just trying to open the camera. The UI is clearly worded but clunky and things often do not respond very quickly, as well as some modes having confusing and odd behavior like the entire screen turning white and not being affected by any ISO/exposure settings. App also has to frequently be restarted just if you tab out to another app. I think that it has promise with continued development.

Probably the only app for any phone that lets you connect a fullsize astrophotography camera and use it like you would on a laptop. The portability is incredible here! All you really need is an outer USB-C to an inner USB-A, and you can connect cameras from ZWO, etc. Also, there's a wide range of display and capture settings normally found on desktop applications. Amazing job, please let me know how I can support more: this is a game changer for portable astrophotography!

Does this app really work? I've tried it with internal camera of the phone but I got only a black screen. ui looks like it was created in 1994. No idea how this app works. Not intuitive, no manual available, no "how to". I know astrophotography is not easy but this app shows only fields where I should enter values. What should I enter. No explanations. Horrible. Sorry, 0 points.

What’s new

Fixed issue with colour touptek cameras when R and B swapped
Driver of Touptek and Meade updated to latest versions
Meade and ToupTek drivers are now split into two separate drivers
Bug Fixes