FreeBSD and Astronomy

[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 <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!

Celestia is in ports/astro/celestia, celestia-gnome, celestia-gtk.