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I absolutely adore Sequator for wide filed Milky Way images, free and so easy to use.
I'm not sure whether it's available for Mac but on my Windows PC it works well for starry skies especially when there's landscape objects in the field of view and you can filter the rotation of land based objects out.
I think with Sequator simplicity is the key. I also like the later versions of Autostakkert for simplicity.
Processing after Sequator usually goes to photoshopp and lightroom for me because I haven't tried other software and already had a base knowledge of using them. I tired Siril but didn't quite understand it but I have heard good things about it once you've learn it which I may actually get to doing one day if I ever get a mount and camera out again.
Poor health and poor weather has been my curse for some time. I still live in hope.
I'd love to play with Orion and an Astro-trac I recently acquired and we're getting some nice views later at night but every evening had been overcast and I haven't bothered setting up my gear with so much cloud.
I was thinking of using my Nikon D810 and maybe an 85mm f1.4 (or 80-200 f2.8ED) but my Nikon D810 has just developed a major fault so it may be the lens direct on my ISO178 sensor Player one Neptune colour if I have the Nikon to 42mm adapter, I'm not sure if I have the correct adapter or if it's the 42mm to Nikon in reverse to fit 42mm lenses on my Nikon. I'll have to check, I have so many adapters.
Personally, I think it;s a matter of trying different software to see what you click with and what you understand without to much complexity for a start.
I have no real issues with complexity but when I do not understand what the features do and end up with a big mess I get frustrated somewhat.
I've not had any success with some of the rotator software but that's probably more because I'm too stupid to figure it out. Understanding complexity with migraine headaches when you can barely think of your own name is no fun I assure you.
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