Hi All, I have an older distribution of the Starlink packages Kappa/Figaro/ Datacube running on my G5. I'm trying to track down the last distribution of Kappa,...
Hello, I downloaded the latest Mac version of xgterm from iraf.net and tried it on my Power Mac running OS 10.4.11. Running it as a standalone program (no ...
Hi all, Not sure if this list is still active since there hasn't been any traffic for some time, but here goes: Does anyone have a VNC client for OS X that...
Hello, I have updated my FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) Library Package. Besides fixing a few bugs related to writing header keywords under certain...
Hi, I had been a silent listener for a long while. Coming up to send this link (intention will be obvious when you go there), but please check out, vote if you...
Well, I don't know how I never heard of this group before. It looks like quite a useful resource. I have maintained the "Macintosh IRAF Web page" for a...
Does anyone have success (or trouble) with Open Office 2.0 on the newer Macs, the ones with the Intel processors? I ask because I installed openoffice.org's...
Hi, I'm having a fair amount of trouble building vpfit/rdgen on my macbook pro, and I wonder if anyone has had success? If so, which compilers did you use? Did...
Dear all, we got several mac pros, and most of our softs are, iraf, ciao,etc. We want students to use mac pros as servers. Such as on student's pc, we install...
Hello, I've been trying to install CASA 19_1315 on OS X 10.4.7. This is my first attempt to install CASA/AIPS++ on Mac under the bash shell. I found the...
Hi all, I have created a library of FORTRAN routines to create, read, edit, plot, and display FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) image files. Some of the...
Starlink Software Collection - "Keoe (Vega)" Release ... JAC announces a new release of the Starlink Software Collection. Highlights of the "Keoe (Vega)"...
Hi all, Well looks like I will have to finally go from 10.3 to 10.4 as some software I have been using is now 10.4 only (due to java versions). So I imagine...
"Where is M13?" is a new astronomy application that helps you visualize the 3-D locations and physical properties of common deep sky objects. This perspective...
Dear osxastro group, I need a laptop computer and I am pretty convinced that a mac is the way to go. However, I have not used a mac before and then they came...
Dear osxastro group, I have recently upgraded to Tiger in my powerbook. When trying to install HEASOFT 6.0.4 from the source (in order to use local models in...
Hey, all. I recently went through heck getting sm (Super Mongo) working on OS 10.4.4 with gcc 4.0.2 and I wanted to share my experience just in case anyone...
Hi All, I have an outstanding undergraduate student that is looking for a summer internship in Astronomy. All of the REU programs that I have found require the...
I posted about this last year, but as far as I am aware, the problem still exists when transferring a powerpoint file made on a Mac to a PC, so I thought it...
Hi all, Apologies to those of you who received spam via this group this morning. We had been happily safe from it up until now. I have changed the group...
Hi all, I've been rather busy lately, so have been rather lax in keeping the website ( http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~nridge/osxastro/ ) up to date, in particular...
Hi all, Back in June I mentioned that xgterm running under Tiger would not read back key presses. This created a problem when xgterm was used as a plotting...
Hi all, I have run into this annoying problem after upgrading to Tiger. The Preview application fails to open a postscript file. It attempts to do the...
Hello list! I'm a middle school technology teacher, and I'm looking for some software which will help my students visualize/move in 3 dimensions. My students...
Hi, This is slightly off-topic, so feel free to ignore me! Can anyone recommend a laser pointer and remote control do-hicky for presentations with a powerbook....
Hi All, One last chance to register for the Mac Astro Workshop. Marcos Huerta of Rice University will be explaining the use of the Mac version of IRAF at the...
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