Free Mac Stacking Programs?

[Herzy]

The title says it all, is there any free Mac stacking programs? I can't run wine or something to run PC programs on a Mac.

[Owmuchonomy]

I am a Mac owner and the only one I know of is Lynkeos for planetary stacking.  I have to use my daughter's PC for all my astro related software.  As you may know, Nebulosity runs on a Mac and that will do it but there is a fee.

[Starlight 1]

Yes DSS for mac I am not on my mac to give you a link.

[Herzy]

Your sure that Lynkeos is legit? The website looks a little bit sketchy. I can't afford to bug me new computer. :/

[Owmuchonomy]

Can't vouch for its legitimacy but it stacked my Saturn image just fine.  I have never heard of DSS for Mac.  I will be very intrigued to see that link when it appears.

[ecuador]

41 minutes ago, Starlight 1 said:

Yes DSS for mac I am not on my mac to give you a link.

Are you talking about Deep Sky Stacker? First time I hear of a Mac version. I run DSS on the Mac, but under a Windows virtual machine (Fusion in my case - perhaps Wine might work as well).

[Starlight 1]

15 minutes ago, ecuador said:

Are you talking about Deep Sky Stacker? First time I hear of a Mac version. I run DSS on the Mac, but under a Windows virtual machine (Fusion in my case - perhaps Wine might work as well).

Yes Dss run on Mac  just got 2 jobs to get done and I fire the Mac up as I only keep Mac links on there its 100% Mac version.

[NigeB]

I don't think there are any versions of DSS which run natively on the Mac. Certainly, on the official web page (http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html) it is Windows only.

There is a version which has been wrapped with Wineskin by someone else, that might well work on a Mac. I've not tried it, but here's a link to the main page:

http://blog.tom-goetz.org/2013/01/running-deepskystacker-for-windows-on.html

And here's the direct download - use at own risk:

download

 

Like Ecuador, I use a Mac, but run DSS within a virtual machine (VirtualBox in my case).

 

Nigel

 

[Starlight 1]

http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html   Not use the mac for a long time but when I open DSS its got this link to the download page.  so try this one and I try to work out this mac again . ps i am using 3.3.2 

[ecuador]

42 minutes ago, Starlight 1 said:

http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html   Not use the mac for a long time but when I open DSS its got this link to the download page.  so try this one and I try to work out this mac again . ps i am using 3.3.2 

You are obviously using the regular Windows version under a Windows emulation or compatibility layer (probably Wine). You can do that with almost any Windows program. That does not mean they are "Mac" versions and they don't run as well as native Mac versions would, which is why we are trying to get native versions, but, sadly there does not seem to be something free like DSS available. E.g. I can run the Windows versions of StarTools, PhotoShop and PixInsight etc under Mac OS X, but performance-wise they are nowhere close to their native Mac versions.

[Starlight 1]

I am not that good when it come to mac how it works i past on that  all i do know is i download it on my mac and it look the same as windows one . i did not download any more them 3.3.2