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.
Imaging the Elephant Trunk Nebula - IC1396
I imaged this nebula over two nights for a total of 14 hours. There are 7 hours of H-a, and 7 hours of OIII data.
A Night At The George Observatory
A few weeks ago, I was able to attend a 'special event' at the George Observatory in Brazos Bend Park just south of
An Overview of EKOS Astrophotography Suite on the Mac
EKOSis the capture suite that comes as part of theKStars Observatorysoftware package. It's a free, fully automated suite for capturing on Mac, Linux,
The observatories on Haleakala
My family and I took a trip to Maui this past week. While we were there we made the trek up Haleakala park mountain to
This is what processing a stack of 720 light frames looks like on an iMac Pro
1,000% CPU utilization in Astro Pixel Processor. I'm three hours into processing this stack of 720 luminance images for M101. It'
Observatory Astronomy Image Catalog Application for the Mac
What do you do with the organized or unorganized chaos of your astrophotography library of images as you continue to add to it over time?