FreeBSD and Astronomy

[Melanie Vonfange]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Matt Olander <matt at 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!

- Melanie