Mac Book Pro Software

[recceranger]

Hi all,

Advice sought regarding AP software for a Mac Book Pro (latest version). For image processing/stacking etc. Lots for windows based laptops but not a great deal about for Apple products.

Can anyone give me a steer?

Cheers

[ilove1995]

Lynkeos is a stacking program for macs. I used this software to stack my early attempts at Jupiter but after a short while I got frustrated with the lack of software available and switched to using windows.

Al

[knobby]

in all honesty the best mac software for astro use is ...

parallels, VM Ware or bootcamp

[jonathan]

I second VMWare Fusions for the Mac, you then have access to all Windows and linux software (providing you can lay your hands on a copy of Windows XP SP2 or greater). I used Bootcamp for a while but I think unless you're playing hardcore games there's really no need, just run up your virtual machine in a window from within Mac OS and allocate CPU cores / RAM as appropriate.

Not sure what memory you may need for stacking software, but I think as long as you can leave Mac OS X at least 1GB RAM you should be fine. In my MacBook Pro I have 16GB installed, plenty to go around! I believe a memory upgrade is a purchase-time-only option for the latest MacBook Pros and iMacs, one of the reasons why I bought mine when I did (that and it was one of the last 17" MacBook Pros that Apple made).

Consider though that I just picked up a 17" Core2Duo T7700 HP 8710w with 4GB RAM for a mere £259 on eBay, a bargain! It's not an i7 but still pretty good for the money. I imagine a good display is useful for astronomy imaging tasks.

[K3ny0n]

Pretty much the same as some people on here, use Parallels for capturing and stacking images ect then over to iOS for photoshop processing.

Rob.

[johnrt]

I use my macbook for image capture - ny running a bootcamp XP install, then I calibrate, stack and process on an iMac running pixinsight and CS5 in IOS.

[knobby]

If you are sticking with Mac, then this is free and pretty stable so far.

I've used it with a D300 Nikon

http://www.sofortbildapp.com/

[earth titan]

VM Fusion here for DSS and registax, but for Deep Sky stuff, then PI in OSX is the kiddy, once you get the hang of it.

Typed by me on my fone, using fumms... Excuse eny speling errurs.