beginner needing some advice on meade autostar!!!!!!
im new to this game and wonder if anyone knows about meade autostar suite and if it will run ok on a macbook osx tiger. have looked at meade website but not found much there ?????
Unfortunately it doesn't run natively on MAc's - I have boot camp running in order to have some of the astro programs - autostar is one - though I must say I'm not that fond of it
cheers daniel
That's exactly what I do as well. Small partition to run Vista which I use to run certain apps, Autostar being one of them. I did have trouble with the first USB to serial converter I bought so you may have to experiment with a couple before you find one that works. That's the only trouble I had.
There are some astro apps for the Mac that will control (as in slew to an object) a Meade telescope. There's a Mac version of Carte du Ciel which will probably work. I have to admit I haven't had time to play with any yet but if you do a search here for Mac Apps you'll find some threads that mention some programs to try.
Unfortunately as far as I know if you want to manage tours on the scope I'm only aware of Autostar being able to do that.
im new to this game and wonder if anyone knows about meade autostar suite and if it will run ok on a macbook osx tiger. have looked at meade website but not found much there ?????
