FreeBSD and Astronomy

[Daniel O'Connor]

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)

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