old imac astro ideas

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

hey folkers, I have an old 2008 Imac with a great screen but the Apple folkers will not let it be upgraded software wise to newer stuff. I have 10.8.5 and am looking to get some semi decent astronomy/planetarium stuff on it ... no processing or guiding. Just want to use the big screen real estate.
Graz

[lazjen (Chris)]

You might be better off installing a Linux distro on there and then getting access to Stellarium, INDI, ekos, kstars, etc.

[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

Originally Posted by graham.hobart

hey folkers, I have an old 2008 Imac with a great screen but the Apple folkers will not let it be upgraded software wise to newer stuff. I have 10.8.5 and am looking to get some semi decent astronomy/planetarium stuff on it ... no processing or guiding. Just want to use the big screen real estate.
Graz

Graham
Starry night 6 Pro will run on 10.5.8 and higher
Joe

[Wavytone]

Sky Safari should work fine, for a start...

Have you looked in the App Store ? Plenty of astro stuff there.

Linux on a Mac ... no thanks

[rally]

If you wanted you could always set it up as a VNC client using the Mac's inbuilt Per User Screen Sharing (available since OSX Lion) and have your new iMac become the server and do all the processing and your old one with the nice screen useful as a workstation - then you will have two fast, lastest version OSX iMacs !
Any of the users logged in this way will have their own complete virtual machine running independently but simultaneously.

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Yeah you should be able to install later than 10.8 on a 2008 model

[lazjen (Chris)]

Originally Posted by Wavytone

Linux on a Mac ... no thanks

It would be a huge improvement.

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

On that age of Mac, it really wouldn’t