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Originally Posted by Babalyon 5
Starry Night Pro 6 for me. Great program, ASCOM compliant. If a lot of the stuff I use for astronomy was available for Linux, it would be catcha Microsoft!!  |
KStars......the planetarium program for the K Desktop Environment under Linux. It'll do everything Starry Night pro 6 will do and it's free. BTW it's ASCOM compliant and it will run all major brands of scope
You also have all your image processing software like The GIMP and IRAF and Linux will handle RAW image format natively. No more plugins. Also, if you have a video imaging CCD camera, it has built in software to control those as well.
What's more, it's pretty much virus proof and far, far more robust than Windows will ever be. If a program crashes it doesn't take your whole system down with it. And, it's also faster than Windows. Plus you can tweak it to specifically handle your machine's hardware so it runs even faster