On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 21:36 -0500, Melanie Vonfange wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Matt Olander <m...@ixsystems.com> 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. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Hey Matt! :) Our Preschooler is getting into astronomy and so we have > been using Celestia. It's an Open Source 3D deep space simulator. > It doesn't have a FreeBSD version yet, but the source code is > available on the site http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.html > > I know it isn't exactly what you are looking for, but it might be a > nice thing to look into while you search!
Celestia is in ports/astro/celestia, celestia-gnome, celestia-gtk. _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
