From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 24 22:57:07 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 E1742106566B for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:57:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 549768FC17 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:57:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.localnet (ppp121-45-33-47.lns10.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.33.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2OMTLds003128 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:59:24 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:59:08 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.4 (Linux/2.6.27-11-generic; KDE/4.1.4; i686; ; ) References: <8B3758D3-C067-43B1-A62F-DD7B7537793D@ixsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <8B3758D3-C067-43B1-A62F-DD7B7537793D@ixsystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5080247.0SvcHKqhvY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200903250859.17013.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.212 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Matt Olander 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: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:57:08 -0000 --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--