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DonвЂ™t forget to take them at the same temperature as your light frames. While you are packing your stuff, take some dark frames. Whether you are after a starry landscape or a faint nebula, take as many images (light frames) you can of your target. The work for image stacking begins in the field. Stacking increases the signal-to-noise ratio, giving a cleaner and more detailed image. This is the only step that is central to editing any kind of astrophotography. The wider the angle of view, the worse the distortion tends to be when stacking.Image stacking is the process to combine all your light and calibration frames into a single image. I find that any FL below 35mm FF equivalent is subject to weird distortion in corners. You brought up a very good point about WA and UWA stacking-it usually looks like crap. Eventually all of the Wine bottled apps will fail as Apple is going to ban 32-bit apps, and Wine only uses 32-bit. DSS always had a glitch that I was able to work around, but the stacking results sometimes fail now with the latest updates to Mojave. One of the latest (last six months) updates to OS X Mojave caused some of my Wine bottled apps to start acting up a bit.

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I would reconment to go for a 30 day trial of Astro Pixel Processor since in the end that is what you are after anyway

So basically there are a bunch of programs that work on MacOS albeit with or without the use of Whineskin. <14mm) you sometimes get strange distortion to the corners where the program can't render and align the images very good. I used it quit alot with some good results. Not many people now it can, but there are several online video's/tutorials that describe how it's done. Photoshop: Photoshop can be used to stack and align images as well. There must be some online tutorial for it, but until now I didn't find it yet (also because I'm using APP)ДЇitswork: Works under Winskin just like DSS, but again, not really well documented and a bit hard to understand. SIRIL: Disigned for Linux but I can't figure out how the program exactly works. Easy to understand and it does have a Comet stack mode (something APP is missing yet) It needs Wineskin to run on Mac.but I did not have good experience with the Winskinned DSS on my Mac.it always stalled somewhere during the process. Normally it will swallow about 15 images.after that, it tends to give problems when trying to stack.Дeep Sky Stacker.nice but old software. Starry Landscape Stacker is a nice program if you do astrophotography with some terestial objects in the foreground. It's not as intuitive as Astro Pixel Processor, but it has more tricks up its sleeve. You need to be willing to really dig into the online tutorials in order to process your first image. Pixinsight: Wonderfull piece of software, but it has it's price.

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(Since it is being developped by just one guy, developemet takes a while.already waiting more then a year for the program to read Sony RAW files ) It will set you back в‚¬175 for a premium account.but you can also download a 30 day free trial.

It doesn't have the fancy feautures that PI has yet since an under development program. There are several programs capable of stacking images on MacOSДЄstro Pixel Processor, it's intuitive and better to understand/learn then Pixinsight for instance. You do need a good special stacking and alignment app if you want to save time, but even that can be done in apps like PS and LR, albeit it is typically labor intensive. You really don't need a special app to do most of the post processing. You can substitute any good app or app suite that has similar functionality. Probably 90% or more of my post processing is done with them.

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In the past I used an older Windows computer to run DSS to stack and align images, then copied them over to my MBP to post process.ДЄs far a general post processing, I use Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC. I personally use a Wine bottled version of DeepSkyStacker (DSS) for Win on my MBP. So unless Wine updates to 64-bit, we will be out of luck. Apple already has said they will block 32-bit apps in the future and only allow 64-bit apps. But there are limitations and I think Wine currently only supports 32-bit apps so once Apple locks out 32-bit apps that method won't work.

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You can also use Wine to 'bottle' some Windows apps and then run them under Mac OS, for now. If you do any stacking and aligning of multiple images, then Nebulosity works well, but it costs $95.

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