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Welcome on the free astronomy wiki

Free as in free software (as in free speech), moreover it's free of charges (as in free beer) and well documented to enable people contributing to it.

Free software for astronomy is discussed and documented, whether they are related to:

Telescope and other device control, autoguiding, autofocus, filter wheel commands, and so on.
Cartography, all kinds of sky maps, particularly including telescope control features (GoTo).
Image processing.

A Hardware Compatibility List for GNU/Linux systems is available.

Many open projects have become available in the past years with the spreading of affordable microcontrollers and systems on chips like Arduino and Raspberry Pi. The alternative hardware page also tries to list them.

Note that the pages listed above are quite old now.

Free-Astro also hosts some projects: Siril, an astronomical image processing software and MCMTII, drivers for the open telescope motorization, SER Player a simple SER file player, and many others available on gitlab.

If you want to contribute to the wiki, you need to request an account, which is a moderated process to prevent spam. After that, you can log in and start editing. Contact.

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+Free software for astronomy is discussed and documented, whether they are related to:
+* [[Telescope Control:Main|Telescope and other device control]], autoguiding, autofocus, filter wheel commands, and so on.
+* [[Cartography:Main|Cartography]], all kinds of sky maps, particularly including telescope control features (GoTo).
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+A [[Hardware compatibility list|Hardware Compatibility List]] for GNU/Linux systems is available.
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+Many open projects have become available in the past years with the spreading of affordable microcontrollers and systems on chips like Arduino and Raspberry Pi. The [[Alternative hardware:Main|alternative hardware]] page also tries to list them.
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+'''Note that the pages listed above are quite old now.'''
-''Free'' as in [http://www.gnu.org free software], meaning that it's free of charges, open source, and well documented.
-Free software for astronomy is discussed and documented, whether they are related to [[Telescope Control:Main|telescope control]], [[Cartography:Main|cartography]], or [[Image Processing:Main|image processing]].
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+''Free-Astro'' also hosts some projects: [https://siril.org Siril], an astronomical image processing software and [[MCMTII]], drivers for the open telescope motorization, [[SER_Player|SER Player]] a simple SER file player, and many others available [https://gitlab.com/groups/free-astro/ on gitlab].
-[[Hardware compatibility list]] is kept up-to-date by free software users.
-[[Protocols]] are documented or reverse-engineered in order to develop software for not yet supported devices.
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+If you want to contribute to the wiki, you need to [[Special:RequestAccount|request an account]], which is a moderated process to prevent spam. After that, you can [[Special:UserLogin|log in]] and start editing. [[User:Vincent|Contact]].
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