A modern guide to astrophotography on macOS: the best Mac-compatible apps for planetary and deep-sky capture, guiding, stacking, plate solving, and processing—plus practical workflows that actually work in 2025-2026.

Discover Space Station Passes, a free and ad-free iOS and macOS app for tracking the ISS, Tiangong, and thousands of satellites. Get interactive star charts, customizable notifications, night mode, and a realtime sky view to make satellite watching easy and accessible.

Rain City Astro’s Planet Stacker X is a free, native macOS tool designed for planetary astrophotographers. With features like wavelet sharpening, SER/AVI stacking, and real-time alignment previews, it brings powerful Lucky Imaging capabilities to the Mac for the first time—no emulators required.

Looking for a powerful, free tool to enhance your planetary, lunar, and solar astrophotography? LuckyStackWorker offers automated batch processing, adaptive sharpening, and advanced noise reduction—perfect for refining stacked images on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Download it today and take your astrophotography to the next level!

Discover the Takahashi Epsilon 160D, a high-performance f/3.3 astrograph optimized for modern CMOS cameras. Learn about its hyperbolic optical design, collimation tools, recommended accessories, and real-world imaging results.