Running IRAF on OS X
Although it may seem like this website has a slight bias towards the biological sciences, we've not forgotten the large community of Mac-loving astronomers. There are a wealth of astronomy applications available for OS X, but some of these applications come as ports from other platforms and need a bit of tweaking to run properly. IRAF is one such application. IRAF is the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility, a general purpose software system for the reduction and analysis of scientific data. IRAF includes a good selection of programs for general image processing and graphics applications, plus a large number of programs for the reduction and analysis of optical astronomy data within the NOAO package. External or layered packages are also available for the analysis of HST, XRAY and EUV data. If you'd like to get started with IRAF on OS X then head over to the instructions at the MacIRAF Web Page. More information on IRAF can be found at the official IRAF project page.
