New Astronomy Computer
O ne of the things on my very long to-do list is to build a small observatory shed next to my outdoor telescope pier and then fence the entire area to keep out bears, bobcats and skunks. I have sketched all sorts of plans but, between continuing health issues followed by the pandemic and lack of available lumber, I have made absolutely no progress in actually building this shed/observatory area. Well... I did build the telescope pier and the foundation for the shed but that is all that has been accomplished thus far. My plan was to use an old Hewlett-Packard desktop computer for controlling my astronomy gear and it would be housed in this astronomy shed. This old computer is in the eight to ten year old range and hasn't been used at all over the past two years. When I purchased a new computer two years ago, I saved this old computer specifically for the purpose of using it in my new observatory. I recently started loading astronomy programs onto this old computer to get it r