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Linux and astrophotography
I'm in the process of de-Windozing my observatory - Linux is just more
flexible for what I need. Things I use: starcharts and planetarium - xephem (www.clearskyinstitute.com) INDI to connect xephem to telescope xawtv and a bt848 based video capture card Mel Bartel's wonderful (DOS based) stepper drive software to drive the scope. ntp and an old Trimble GPS to get a local clock good to 10 us. I'm currently developing Linux code to hook my Artemis camera into INDI. Other cameras already have drivers. If you want serious-grade image processing, look for the starlink software (oh, it does take 1900 MBytes to compile it...) ds9 is a nice FITS image viewer There are plenty of astronomical components for Linux - you may have to do some work to glue them together, but you then get a system you understand well Clear skies --David |
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