Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:59:08 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: Matt Olander <matt@ixsystems.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Astronomy Message-ID: <200903250859.17013.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <8B3758D3-C067-43B1-A62F-DD7B7537793D@ixsystems.com> References: <8B3758D3-C067-43B1-A62F-DD7B7537793D@ixsystems.com>
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--nextPart5080247.0SvcHKqhvY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 25 March 2009 04:52:50 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. I don't have such a beastie but I believe there are a number of ports which= =20 can talk to telescopes via the serial port (eg xephem) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart5080247.0SvcHKqhvY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBJyV615ZPcIHs/zowRAnHIAJ0WjE51qcg17H8uFDMkOn8x3XTC2gCfTUR+ k5vik3cpbJxMWzchybns5yk= =O/W+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5080247.0SvcHKqhvY--
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