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The latest in Mac astronomy — software releases, app announcements, version updates, and notable developments in the astrophotography world. When a new Mac-compatible app hits the scene, an existing tool gets a major update, or something shifts in the ecosystem, we cover it here. Short-form coverage designed to keep you current.
Some Amazon Prime Day deals worth looking at for your telescope
There’s a lot of less than stellar telescope items on sale at Amazon right now, but I’ll link to the ones I think
QuickFits 1.0 released with Finder QuickLook for Fits files
QuickFits is a nice little application for the Mac that will debayer, auto stretch and preview your images right from the finder. This makes for
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,
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
Observer Pro 1.3 for iPhone released
I love this app, and have been using it for some time. Joshua Bury is the developer, and over the last few months he’s
Basically I was just interviewed on the Mac Power Users podcast
…where I basically say basically about a thousand times. It’s all good though. A few more podcasts and I’ll be a pro. Don’
Mac Observatory is on Instagram!
I finally set up an Instagram account. I’ll be posting my images there, but will still post them here on the site as well.
AstroPixel Processor 1.072 Released
The latest version of Astro Pixel Processor has been released. Lots of support for Sony cameras has been added. Improved Drizzle/Bayer Drizzle. Lots of
KStars/EKOS 3.1 is released!
An update to my current favorite imaging platform has been released. In this release there’s a bunch of 3.0 fixes as well as
Astro Pixel Processor 1.071 released
This version includes a bunch of new fixes and features. * IMPROVED, access to license server * IMPROVED/FIXED, star analysis & registration * FIXED, Calibration AMP-GLOW * FIXED,
KStars/EKOS 3.0 released with new features
The team behind KStars and EKOS have been busy wrapping up anew versionof their imaging software just in time for the holidays. There’s a