From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 25 06:06:31 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 7FD3B106566C for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:06:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ken@stox.org) Received: from smtp123.sbc.mail.re3.yahoo.com (smtp123.sbc.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.96.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C58E8FC16 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:06:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ken@stox.org) Received: (qmail 28987 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2009 05:39:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (ken@75.4.51.155 with login) by smtp123.sbc.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2009 05:39:49 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: yVXDQOYVM1l.0H8OPr9SfhS9IELkzpeR9_P2QA_k4MlQlFK1zk.LuVxERAZ1MeVUM6Enw6qr30OTIkLE6U.Nw5nbPcYWMS6fFhDpbcbJawNtGpFF7Uj3cYttLkikHZ8kuhpMFcExL6GqPD_NdG6YtbhJIedqeiuSMi0eE_hjq5C0pgKmSfaIDI4Kh0RaJMPc7YR7ghCYHikGOrI8zKd_KLFakFc0livA7g-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: "Kenneth P. Stox" To: FreeBSD Chat In-Reply-To: <9df43a1e0903241936n2a7176e5l554dad88ab7dc37a@mail.gmail.com> References: <8B3758D3-C067-43B1-A62F-DD7B7537793D@ixsystems.com> <9df43a1e0903241936n2a7176e5l554dad88ab7dc37a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: The Stox Organization Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:39:47 -0500 Message-Id: <1237959587.14236.2.camel@stox.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Astronomy X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ken@stox.org 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 06:06:31 -0000 On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 21:36 -0500, Melanie Vonfange wrote: > 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! Celestia is in ports/astro/celestia, celestia-gnome, celestia-gtk.