Andrew Burwell
Designer, astrophotographer, and Mac app developer. Founded Mac Observatory over 9 years ago to help astronomers get the most from their Macs. Now building native macOS apps for the astrophotography community. Based in Houston, TX.
Affinity Photo 1.9 adds astrophotography workflow support with stacking and calibration
A new astrophotography processing contenderAffinity Photohas entered the Mac…and PC race. Affinity introduced it’s suite of applications to compete against Adobe Photoshop, Indesign,
Remote astrophotography with a portable setup: traveling to a dark site
For some time now, I had been planning on taking myportable astrophotography rigto a dark site. During the Thanksgiving holiday, my family and I thought
Review of the ZWO ASI294MM-Pro camera
ZWO recently surprised everyone by announcing a camera no one thought would arrive. A new micro 4/3 sensor based mono camera called theZWO ASI294MM-Pro.
Review of the ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro camera
Some time, earlier in the year, I made the decision to move to full frame imaging. Full frame, is essentially an uncropped DSLR sensor like
Imaging with the ZWO Duo-band filter for color astrophotography cameras.
While waiting for the adapter to connect up my ASI6200MM-P camera and filter wheel, I've been experimenting with theZWO Duo-band filterthat ZWO gave
First light with the Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED
Imaging Full Frame I recently decided to start imaging with a full frame sensor. TheZWO ASI6200MM-Pro. Previously I had been using aZWO ASI1600MM-Pro, while still
The Growing List of Mac Planetary Imaging and Processing Applications
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that there is a growing list of Mac planetary imaging and processing applications.
Imaging Comet Neowise with AstroImager on the Mac
I’ve had only two opportunities to see and get images of comet C/2020 F3 Neowise. The first time out I wasn’t sure
Adventurers with the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Traveling with the Star Adventurer Last month, I finally got an opportunity to travel with mySky-Watcher Star Adventurer Pro Pack, and myCanon T3i DSLRas my
A modern, portable, astrophotography setup with the Rainbow Astro RST-135
I’ve had in my possession aCelestron Advanced VX(my first astrophotography mount), aniOptron Cube Proas a visual grab and goto mount, and aSky-Watcher Star
Apple announces ARM CPU based Macs
What does this mean for Astrophotography? Good news. Likely not much. While the two CPUs are not compatible from a software standpoint, Apple is providing
Observatory Astronomical Image Library updated to 1.5.1
Sander hasjust updatedhis Mac astronomical image cataloging application with some cool new features. You can now filter your image library by 21 new criteria, creating