Next Previous Contents 5. 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. 5.2 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.