I've been on the lookout for a MacOSX star trails program, and in the MacRumors.com forum someone posted a link to http://www.markus-enzweiler.de/software/software.html, which has this freeware program:
StarStaX is a fast multi-platform image stacking and blending software, which is developed primarily for Star Trail Photography. It allows to merge a series of photos into a single image, where the relative motion of the stars creates structures looking like star trails. StarStaX is available as Freeware for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Click here for more information, documentation and software download.
I just downloaded it and will try it out later tonight, I'll compare its processing via existing images I've already processed thru the WinTel Star Trails program, http://www.startrails.de/html/software.html If this works good, will simpliy my workflow, as I'm a Mac OSX person who uses VMWare as needed for the WinTel apps that are not on the MacOSX platform yet. No that Mac's have 10% market share I hope others follow suit. This appears NOT to be a port of the old startrails, but a totally new application. my current workflow for WinTel stuff:
For now, its a pain; I have to import from SD card to aperture, (for organization), I add keywords in aperture to organize the shots (lights/darks/flats/etc), export as TIFF into organized folders, then start up VMFusion, under windows access those folders, copy those to my WinXP desktop (can't access them correctly if tried to do across the OS's), run the WinTel programs, save to the MacOS desktop, import into Aperture....and upload to web hosting site.
Focus stacking, image processing, 3D, and more. Snail shell (Littorina) → Click for larger view Tips & News New Two new English YouTube Tutorials explaining: Focus stacking and the meaning of the stacking parameters. The gallery of PICOLAY images has been updated with lots of old and new 3D images:). This shows the clear sky chart for the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper, Alberta and you can see by the legend there is essentially 90-100% cloud cover for the entire forecast period with the exception. Mac 产品与周边; macOS 苹果系统. StarTrails 2.1.1 2014/8/1 星轨合成软件. PowerPC+INTEL ( 日常工具 - 图片浏览) Startrail 2.0 0. There is a very cool FREE PROGRAM (for both Mac and PC) called 'StarStaX' which makes combining your images dead easy. There is also a great free script written by 'Russell Brown' called 'Stack-a-Matic' that you can link into Photoshop CS5/6 to do this too. This is a good little video on YouTube showing how to stack the images using both the. Startrail for Mac, free and safe download. Startrail latest version: Make your mouse leave a trail of stars.
Star Trail For Mac
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