AfterNight

AfterNight 1.0.0

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 04:06:54 -0300

The first public release: calibration, registration and stacking, about eighty processes to finish the master, plate solving and Python extensions, for Windows and Linux.

RC-Astro XTerminators

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AfterNight native process-window adapter for RC-Astro XTerminator command-line tools. The package contains adapter code only; users provide their own RC-Astro CLI installation, models, and activation material.

VeraLux Suite

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AfterNight port of the VeraLux suite, originally authored by Riccardo Paterniti; AfterNight port by Ezequiel Ruiz. This suite package includes Revela local contrast enhancement, Alchemy linear narrowband normalization/mixing, HyperMetric Stretch nonlinear tone mapping, Curves photometric curve sculpting, Nox additive gradient reduction, Silentium linear noise suppression, Vectra LCH color grading, StarComposer star-mask shaping and starless recomposition, and a package-local Starting Point workflow guide, with all VeraLux processes sharing one install, one dependency environment, and one requirements lock.

Cosmic Clarity

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

First-party AfterNight adapter for the Cosmic Clarity tool suite. It provides denoise, satellite trail removal, Dark Star, sharpening, and super-resolution processes while keeping the upstream Cosmic Clarity executables outside the package and user-configurable.

GraXpert AI

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

First-party AfterNight adapter for GraXpert AI background extraction, denoise, and deconvolution. The package keeps only AfterNight-specific adapter code; the shared GraXpert dependency context is provisioned from hash-locked official PyPI wheels during install.

M20, the Trifid Nebula

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0300

An emission nebula split by dark dust lanes beside a blue reflection nebula, in a dense star field towards the centre of the Milky Way.

About AfterNight

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The project

AfterNight started in 2022 as a second engineering project for its author, Ezequiel Ruiz, a software engineer who processes his own deep-sky data. It is written in C++20 with a Qt 6 interface, runs on Windows and Linux from one codebase, and covers the whole path from calibration frames to a finished image: masters, registration, stacking, gradients, colour calibration, stretching, noise, stars and masks. A command-line tool ships beside the application, and Python extensions add tools from other projects.

Download AfterNight

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Every process, explained

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