Starting with Mountain Lion (OSX 10.8), Apple tightened the security
control over applications that are not from Mac App Store and
identified developers. Spot is among them. To make Spot run, users
need to change the 'Security & Privacy' setting:
Open Sy...
Mac OS 10.10 sees that a PowerPC executable is bundled in the MOPEX
package and prevents the package from being run by clicking on the
Application in a Finder window or the dock. You can still launch MOPEX
from the command line using:
/Applications...
Mac OS 10.10 sees that a PowerPC executable is bundled in the Spot
package and prevents the package from being run by clicking on the
Application in a Finder window or the dock. You can still launch Spot
from the command line using:
/Applications/Sp...
The red-shaded data are still proprietary. If they are your data, then
log in and you should be able to download them. (If you need to create
a new account in order to log in, you may have to interact with the
Spitzer Helpdesk to get your new account tied...
If you installed your own JRE and installed the SPOT 18.01 generic
package, you still need to allow autoupdate to update Spot to version
19.10. At the same time, autoupdate server will try to update your JRE
too. You can do one of the following:
1. ...
The Cycle-14 call for proposals has been issued but we want to make
you aware of an issue with Spot that affects solar system observation
planning. A recent security update at JPL has broken Spot's ability to
resolve NAIF IDs and download the ephemeris fi...
At this point we are unaware of any El Capitan-specific issues with
Spot and Leopard, however the issues with previous versions of OSX
remain. Please see the following articles for more information:
Running Spot and Leopard on Yosemite (OS X 10.10)
[ht...
Mac OS X Mavericks tightens the security control over applications
that are not from Mac App Store and identified developers. Spot is
among them. To make Spot run, users need to change the 'Security &
Privacy' setting:
* Open System Preferences
* Cl...
SPOT REQUIRES JAVA VERSION 1.6 OR 1.7. IT DOES NOT WORK WITH VERSION
1.8. A clean Sierra installation comes with Java 1.8. We advise you to
install Java 6 before installing Spot. You can download this from
Apple:
* Go to https://support.apple.com/kb/D...
We suggest you see the KB article for OSX 10.9 Mavricks
[http://sohelp2.ipac.caltech.edu/support/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/222/15/spot-for-mavericks-macosx-109]
for important information.
Please also see this article
[http://sohelp2.ipac.cal...
