FreeBSD and Astronomy

james michael jamesthefishy at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 16:44:28 PDT 2009


I've always wanted to get more into astronomy but never had the time or 
the equipment. If anyone knows of more ways to get into the subject I 
would appreciate it.

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.
>
> Thanks!
> -matt
>
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