FreeBSD and Astronomy

[Alex Moura]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Melanie Vonfange <melanie at pcbsd.org>wrote:

> 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
>

Hi,

There's also Stellarium - already in ports - wich happens to have some
telescope integration:

http://stellarium.sf.net
http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Telescope_Control
http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Telescope_Compatibility
http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Board/nexstargps/Number/2023993/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/o/fpart/all

Maybe this will work.

- Alex