On Wednesday 25 March 2009 04:52:50 Matt Olander wrote: > Hi! > > Is anybody into astronomy on FreeBSD? I'd love to hook up a telescope > to my FreeBSD laptop and use some software to control it while we look > at stars on the monitor, zoom in, and the scope moves. This would be > fun taking to local astronomy groups as well as conferences :-) > > Any advice welcome! If anybody has a working setup, I'd love to hear > details such as the brand/model of scope and the software that you're > using on FreeBSD.
I don't have such a beastie but I believe there are a number of ports which can talk to telescopes via the serial port (eg xephem) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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