Re: FreeBSD and Astronomy

2009-03-25 Thread Kenneth P. Stox
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

Re: FreeBSD and Astronomy

2009-03-25 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Mar 24, 2009, at 1:22 PM, 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

Re: FreeBSD and Astronomy

2009-03-25 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hi Since nobody has mentioned nova so far ... http://www.secnetix.de/tools/porgle/?w=dq=telescope+control astro/nova An Integrated Observational Environment for amateur astronomers The Nova project is a free Integrated Observational Environment for amateur astronomers. It combines