Professional and amateur astronomers, here is the Linux distro for you!

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 26, 2014

Distro Astro 3.0 is the third major release of this complete operating system written for astronomers. Based on Ubuntu LTS, it has features that are useful for both professional and amateur astronomers.

The latest version improves on the previous ones by adding tools for geolocation, astrophotography, observation planning, and data analysis.

The news link is the official press release from the Distro Astro team.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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