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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>
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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
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