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Old 05-12-2024, 11:43 AM
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Hi Peter,

There is KStars for controlling your equipment - free and regularly updated by the KStars development team. You can even control an entire observatory with it, should you have the need / desire to do so.

How are your IT skills? You can always build yourself a 'Hackintosh' - a modified version of macOS that runs on commodity PC hardware.

My main machine that gets used for everything (email / web / image processing) is a hex-core i5 Hackintosh. All the benefits of macOS and all the benefits of being able to upgrade hardware as I need to.

So 'joining the dark side' need not be expensive.

Cheers,
V.
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