Astronomical Images Over the Web 5. Conference Series provides a forum for scientists and computer specialists concerned with algorithms, software and operating systems in the acquisition, reduction and analysis of astronomical data. All these activities aim to encourage communication between software specialists and users, and also to stimulate further development of astronomical software and systems. For more information, see linuxastro . More folks are using Linux to control equipment.
Users range from amateur astronomers in the field to professional observatories.
XEphem has the capability to communicate with a telescope control daemon process. CCD Camera Control Apogee Instruments Inc supports their line of professional CCD cameras under Linux. SBIG offers some assistance with operating their ST7 and ST8 CCD cameras under Linux. These pages describe a number of facets of using astronomical CCD cameras for image acquisition and processing under Linux. You need to know what you're doing with Linux and installing programs, but help is available for some programs.