Taken with the same camera and scope as the M 33 pic Here are some more images stacked with DSS 3.2.2 last night:Ībout 20 minutes from 7 images stacked - ISO 1600 Here is the DSS official website where 4.1.1 can be found.
I will try to find an easy way to install the newer version and see how it runs.
The version of DSS is 3.2.2 which is older than the newer version 4.1.1 (available for 32 bit and 64 bit). Some functionality may be 'limited' but that is not where I am going anyway (I haven't tested it fully).ĭeepskystacker For Mac ComputersHere is a screenshot of it running on my system: I used it for the above photograph (and the ones that follow) and it works GREAT on my Macbook! This person has packaged Wine and DSS 3.2.2 into a SINGLE installable file! Sweet! In my search for 'How to run DSS in Mac' I came across this website: Wine is a potential way of running DSS without the baggage of an entire Windows OS. While I could run it in a virtual machine using Virtual Box, the fact is that it would run far faster if not burdened down with another OS system. The good news: I will be ready for it next year!Īnother task was to install DeepSkyStacker onto my Macbook Pro running High Sierra 10.13.6 Starry Landscape StackerĭSS was made only for Windows. The bad news is that these objects will be too far down in the west to image (trees, more atmosphere to shoot through). Of course, as fall progresses into winter here in the northern hemisphere it will get darker much earlier. Though the nights are coming on earlier, the problem is that, at present, until it is 11 pm or later the background sky light is too much for any serious imaging. The real problem was not 'How long can I expose the camera sensor?' but 'How long can I expose before the background sky light overwhelms the faint nebulosity of the subject matter?' Here is a close up of the same galaxy image above so you can see that the stars are round and there is no drift! My goal was to do some more tests with my autoguider camera and scope. Sure, they want it to burn 'hot and fast' but hey, what's the hurry? Throw some fire starter on it and it WILL burn! Anyway, enough of that rant. I can't figure out why they can't do that on cloudy days. at least until the forestry department kicks in 'prescribed burns' and pollutes the skies with smoke. Last night was the first of perhaps a week of clear skies here in central Oregon. Total time: 20 minutes from 6 frames ISO 800Ĭanon T3i camera body (unmodified), Daystar 80mm f/6 scope
M 33 Galaxy (no cropping)ĭeepSkyStacker 3.2.2 in Mac OS High Sierra (using Wine) After a shooting night you give all your pictures (light frames, darks frames, offset/bias frames, flat frames) to DeepSkyStacker and you go to bed. DeepSkyStacker is a freeware for astrophotographers that simplifies all the pre-processing steps of deep sky pictures. DeepSkyStacker is for astrophotography that simplifies all the pre-processing steps of deep sky pictures and is specialized in dealing with RAW files from. DeepSkyStacker is a portable software application designed for astro-photographers who want to seamlessly process deep sky pictures.It offers support for popular file types, including JPEG, BMP.