I'm determined to make this coming winter my return to the hobby with more frequency. It's also about an hour drive to darker skies so it involves a lot of packing/unpacking/setting up/ packing and the unpacking at home, about 250+ pounds of gear. I've done it before but it's always more fun when you have someone to hang with. I've always done astro and wildlife, but several years back my dark sky friend moved away and I lost to desire to stand out in a field all night long by myself. Good luck and don't be afraid to ask more questions along the way, plenty of people here that can help out.Īs to reason for doing less astro, it wasn't completely due to the acquisition of the 500L. You might want to read up on Nebulosity and watch some videos to get started and determine if it would be a good option for you. I shoot using telescopes and find them very helpful. I also recommend Noel's Astro Tools(Plug-ins) for Photoshop, however I'm not certain how useful they would be for wide field work.
Stretching your stacked image in Photoshop requires a light hand and constant monitoring of the histogram. For me the most important part of processing astro happens in Photoshop, and of course the most important part of the entire process is collecting quality data, ya can't make chicken soup from chicken poop. I have no experience with DeepSky Stacker so I don't know how well it'll measure up with Nebulosity as far as functionality and quality.
Backyardeos for mac plus#
It costs a fraction of what Images Plus does so it's not an apples to apples comparison. I've actually only used it once so I need to watch more tutorials before giving an in-depth and fair evaluation.
I no longer have that old Macbook set up with Bootcamp so I've recently started using Nebulosity on my newer Macbook Pro.
Backyardeos for mac pro#
At that time I had a Macbook Pro set up with Boot Camp so I could run Windows and stack my astro work using Images Plus, export them and finish processing in Photoshop.
Backyardeos for mac software#
The preferred software for me in the past was Images Plus. Obviously the developers don't feel there was a large enough market to justify the expense. I had expectations that most if not all of the existing preferred or popular software would expand from Windows-based to Mac as well, that just hasn't happened. Shelley, the development of astro processing software for Macintosh over the past 5-8 years has been disappointing. I don't do enough astro to make auto guiding a priority at this point, but it might be a capability that I would like in the future. The limited resources annoy me, so I don't do much astro work.Ĭan anyone make any suggestions as to what software packages I should look at? I just have an AstroTrac, so I really don't need auto guiding. But, I think it is time to move past that due to the limiting of computing resources this results in. I have been using Deepsky Stacker, BackyardEOS, and BackyardRED in a vitural machine on my MacBook.
0 kommentar(er)
