However, I've recently started finding quite a bit of Mac OS based astrophotography software. However, that's time consuming and rather fiddly and limited to stacking static exposures. When I first got the Mac, I had a lot of trouble getting Wine to run reliably and eventually ended up doing my alignment and processing manually in The Gimp. I used to run the freeware ones in Wine on Ubuntu with varying levels of success. In the mean time, I've started doing a bit more astrophotography and of course the change of operating system has affected the tools I use to obtain and process photos.Īmateur astronomers have traditionally mostly used Windows, so there are a lot of Windows tools, both freeware and payware, to help. It's been a good three years now since I swapped my HP laptop for a Macbook Pro.
Illustrator CS4 is still the best at what it does, but this year it lacks the in. Adobe Illustrator CS3 is a worthwhile upgrade for Illustrator, Flash, and even FreeHand users.
