FreeBSD and Astronomy

[Josh Paetzel]

On Mar 24, 2009, at 1:22 PM, 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
>


cd /usr/ports/astro/xephem && make maintainer

*cough*

The makers of xephem also created a protocol called INDI that allows  
xephem to control hardware.  They have drivers for Meade, Celestron,  
and Takahasi telescopes.


Thanks,

Josh Paetzel