Best software for Mac? Beginner.

[photoguy11uk]

Very new to this astro business however i have an iMac and looking for software to use for images, can anyone give me advice? Thank you. 

[mrjonathanbrown]

I would use VMware Fusion and run windows on your mac thats what I am doing and it runs perfect! You will get a lot more options running windows. 

[thanders]

Nebulosity is a good choice.

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[D4N]

Free native apps:

PHD2 for guiding.

Stellarium is a good free star map.

OAcapture is good for solar system imaging.

GIMP for processing - currently limited to 8 bit though.

Paid native apps:

Pixinsight (processing)

Photoshop (processing)

Free apps usable in wine:

Registax (processing)

Pipp (processing)

Autostakkert (processing)

Deep sky stacker (processing) kinda works too but is tricky to get to work and has glitches.

As mentioned already VMware is great for running windows on a Mac, I use it so I can use Astrotortilla. I would suggest XP if you go down this route as it isn't so resource hungry and astro software tends to work well on it.

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[AndyWB]

I don't do imaging, but for stellarium programs, Sky Safari is better than Stellarium. You might have to pay a bit, but it's much simpler to use.

[MattJenko]

For image capture for Canon DSLRs, you can use the EOS utility which is simpler than simple. PHD for guiding, Stellarium for planetarium stuff and EQMac for mount control.

[MattJenko]

Paying for a windows license to run it under a VM on a MacBook. Ergh , would rather run Linux and try and get everything running under Wine.