Whilst not going to Astrofest, I finally managed to get X-Windows on Cygwin to run (was caused by a port conflict on port 6000 which is the X-server default port), and then was able to compile and run the free version of XEphem. One apparently minor problem with linking the exe, the -lXp.dll gave a 'could not be found' error message. Couldn't find any helpful hints googling, or on the XEphem yahoo group, so I removed the lib and then it seemed to link o.k. And seems to run o.k.
Taking a while to get back into the way of using Xwindows and Twm - but so far is looking good. Next job, to start and develop some plots for comet Lulin.
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Whilst there seems to be a lot of internet and armchair astronomy out there - my main interest is in real observational astronomy.
I like to keep things simple...
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