From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 25 03:04:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CD9106564A for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:04:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from melanie.vonfange@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C792D8FC25 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:04:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from melanie.vonfange@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 5so1818373ywh.13 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:04:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8B3758D3-C067-43B1-A62F-DD7B7537793D@ixsystems.com> References: <8B3758D3-C067-43B1-A62F-DD7B7537793D@ixsystems.com> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:36:15 -0500 Received: by 10.143.3.16 with SMTP id f16mr3671430wfi.344.1237948590505; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9df43a1e0903241936n2a7176e5l554dad88ab7dc37a@mail.gmail.com> From: Melanie Vonfange To: Matt Olander Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Astronomy X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:04:40 -0000 On Tue, 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! > 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