Collaborative live stacking
Many imagers. One deep stack.
Pool your sub-frames of a target with other imagers. Rapid Stacker Collab calibrates, registers and integrates everyone's frames into shared per-filter stacks that deepen every night, and shows you which of your frames helped.
How it works
From your saved frame to the shared stack
Join with a code
The owner of a project gives you a code. You accept the terms of contribution and choose a display name; nothing about your location is shared.
Image as usual
The N.I.N.A. plugin uploads each saved light frame in the background, with your filter names mapped once to the project's.
Watch it deepen
Each project page shows a live stack after every batch and a gold stack nightly, with who contributed how many hours and why any frame was rejected.
Projects
Project directory
Your projects
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Good to know
Questions
What does it cost?
Nothing. It is free, with storage quotas per contributor and per project. Donations help cover the servers.
Is my location shown to other members?
No. Site coordinates and observer names are never published or shown to anyone, and the plugin removes them from the files it uploads by default. Other members see your display name, an optional country and your totals. See privacy.
Do I need N.I.N.A.?
The plugin needs N.I.N.A. 3.1 or newer. A standalone uploader for other capture software, and a browser uploader for one-off contributions, are planned. See downloads.
Can the owner download my raw frames?
Only if you allow it. Owners get the integrated masters by default; raw download is an opt-in you set per project, when you join or later in your dashboard.