Nebulosity (Windows and OS X) is designed to be a powerful, but simple to use capture and processing application for a wide range of astronomy CCD cameras. Many cameras are supported for capture (see below) and images from just about anything can be processed (support for many FITS formats, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, CR2/CRW, etc). Its goal is to suit people ranging from the novice imager who wants to create his or her first images to the advanced imager who wants a convenient, flexible capture application for use in the field.  In it, you get a host of purpose-built powerful tools to make the most out of your images (e.g., Digital Development Processing, traditional alignment/stacking (equatorial and alt-az), Drizzle alignment/stacking, Bad Pixel Mapping, LRGB tools, real-time tricolor histograms for color balancing, star tightening via edge detection, adaptive scaling of stacks, Canon CR2/CRW RAW Bayer matrix loading, 32/96-bit accuracy, etc.)

Nebulosity supports a wide range of cameras on both Windows and OS X. They are:
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* Canon DIGIC II / III DSLRs: EOS 1D/1Ds Mk II/Mk IIN, 1Ds Mk II, 20D/20Da, 350D / Rebel XT, 5D, 30D, 40D, 400D / Rebel XTi)*.
* Fishcamp Starfish
* Meade DSI, DSI Pro, DSI II, DSI II Pro, DSI III and DSI III Pro.
* SBIG
* Starlight Xpress SXV / SXVF USB cameras

In addition, on Windows, the following cameras are supported
* Atik 16, 16IC, and 16HR / Artemis cameras
* CCD Labs Q8-HR, Q285M / QHY2 Pro
* Orion StarShoot Deep-Space Color Imager**
* OpticStar DS-335 series and PL-130
* QSI 500 series
* SAC10
* SAC7 / SC1 long-exposure modified webcams / Atik 1 and Atik 2 cameras.
* Earlier DIGIC I Canons (e.g. the 300D) are not supported
** The Orion StarShoot II is not supported


For a full run-down, have a look at the Feature List, the full manual (PDF), or download it (version 1.7.4 - Release Notes).  All features are enabled when you download it, but saved images will be degraded (diagonal lines superimposed) until you purchase a license. Thus, you can evaluate the software extensively prior to purchase.
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Purchasing

If you're ready to purchase Nebulosity it's only $45.  Purchase of the license code entitles you to free upgrades until v2.0 as they are released. Simply download the current version, submit your payment via the PayPal icon below, and your license code will be automatically e-mailed to you (please check the e-mail account associated with your PayPal account and ensure that the e-mail was not labeled as SPAM. The code should arrive within minutes).

Windows and OS X Support

Nebulosity is a cross-platform application. It runs natively in Windows (Win2k, XP, and Vista) and in OS X 10.4-10.5 (Intel and PowerPC, G4 or better). While Nebulosity itself is fully cross-platform, many of the camera drivers required for image capture are not. Under OS X, camera control and image capture is supported for a limited set of cameras (see above). All processing features are currently supported and license codes purchased for the Windows version of Nebulosity will unlock the OS X version as well. You are free to download both Windows and OS X versions and use the same code for each. You can download the installer in "Package" (.mpkg) format for OS X 10.4 or 10.5 (Universal Binary).

Note: Windows 9x is not officially supported.
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