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...
Spot uses a program from JPL's Horizons called ISPY to do this
calculation. JPL updated the interfaces to their web facing services
and we have not had the resources to patch Spot so it can
automatically talk to Horizons. So, you will have to run ISPY you...
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. ...
We want to make you aware of an issue with Spot that affects solar
system observation planning. A security update at JPL has broken
Spot's ability to resolve NAIF IDs and download the ephemeris file
from Spot. When you enter a NAIF ID into the target pane...
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...
PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE ARTICLE BEFORE INSTALLING SPOT.
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SPOT REQUIRES JAVA VERSION 1.6 OR 1.7. IT DOES NOT WORK WITH VERSION
1.8. A clean High Sierra installation comes with Java 1.8. We advise
you to install Java 6 before inst...
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...
IRSA recently moved from http to https, and we are patching Spot to
match. Until Spot is patched, the following functions are unavailable:
In the Images menu:
* WISE Image: Throws the error: 'Service Failed'
* ISSA/IRIS Image: Throws the error: 'I...
