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Collect astro photos on your MAc with the Starlight express CCD camera iCCD has been written so that astrophotos can be collected on an Apple OS X computer with the Starlight Express line of CCD cameras. The Starlight Cameras use Sony chips. The Sony chips have extremely low dark currents. This means that fewer processing steps are necessary to get "pretty pictures." The Starlight cameras are well designed and have a lower profile than other ccd cameras on the market.The Macintosh is an excellent computer for ccd imaging and image processing. With the mac, you have no worries with Win XP drivers, dlls, etc., everything just works. Need to adjust the usb cable during an imaging session, just unplug it then replug it in. Everything just works, iCCD supports usb autoreconnection. OS X does an excellent job of process sharing. I have no trouble listening to iTunes while imaging, tweaking an image in photoshop, while collecting a new image.The image processing routines in iCCD make use of the vImage image processing framework. The vImage routines are Velocity Engine (Altivec) aware for excellent performance on G4 and higher processors. These routines will still function on a G3 but not as quickly. Apple has done an excellent job on the vImage framework and it will only improve in the next release of the operating system (Tiger). Currently, the image processing routines only work on 16 bit grayscale images. This is because I believe that it is best to work on each individual color and luminance frame separately. In fact you should do most of the processing on the luminance frame. The iCCD program is a multiple window package that will control the Starlight Express cameras and open FITS files on the macintosh, an added bonus if you don't have a ccd camera.iCCD has was written in Objective-C using Cocoa and the Xcode development environment. The bottom picture shows the iCCD program. iCCD has works with the mx7c, mx7, sxv-h9, sxv-h9c, sxv-m7, sxv-m7c, and the new sxv-m8c. In the latest release, the focusingThe top image shows the setup used to collect the M42 image below. The Tak Epsilon 210 was used unguided. The Starlight Express SXV-H9C camera was controlled by an 800 MHz 15" Powerbook G4 laptop running Mac OS X 10.3.2. The ring image was a sum of fifteen 1 minute images. Image averaging is now available in iCCD (only in the Beta, contact me to get a copy of the Beta).

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