FireCapture on a Mac - Success!

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Bruce G
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FireCapture on a Mac - Success!

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With some assistance from Torsten, I was able to get FireCapture running on my Mac and communicating with my ZWO ASI174MM camera. Unfortunately, nothing but clouds above my head.

There are some tricks involved in the installation. Thankfully, I had exposure to Unix at one point in my life.

If anyone is interested in how to install FireCapture on the Mac, let me know and I'll write it up. If I get more than a couple requests, I'll post it

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Re: FireCapture on a Mac - Success!

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Bruce,

You can write up the sequence of the installation procedures and publish it here.
I believe many will be glad to use this in their practice.


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I agree with Valery, an important addition to the solar library!

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OK. I'll write it up. I still need to check the syntax of one of the Terminal commands

Meanwhile...
Here's the first light photo from the new setup. Seeing was absolutely terrible today, but I wanted to finally make a photo of some sort.

Lunt LS80THa single stack
ZWO ASI174MM
FireCapture v2.6, running on a Macbook Pro

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