Tux Meteor is a simple meteor counting program, written by Akkana Peck.

It logs the time of each meteor, and which key or button was used to log it, so you can use different keys/buttons for different brightnesses or parts of the sky.

Type "make" to build Tux Meteor. By default, it will try to find your X11 libraries and build with them. If it gets this wrong, or if you want to override the default and build with or without X, see the comments at the beginning of the Makefile.

The binary is named tuxmeteor. You can run it from the source directory, or run make install to copy it to /usr/local/bin.

When you run tuxmeteor, q will quit; any other key (or mouse button, if you've built with X11) will count as a meteor, logged to $HOME/.tuxmeteor/meteors.

tuxmeteor -t will run in terminal mode (useful if you've built without X11 support).

The log file is $HOME/.tuxmeteor/meteors It appends to the existing file if one is already there.

meteor2plot.py can take the output and turn it into a file suitable for passing to a 2002-era gnuplot. (Run meteor2plot.py binsize filename. binsize is in seconds, default is 60). Unfortunately gnuplot seems to have changed since then, and neither meteor2plot.py nor plot.sh has been updated since then. Patches appreciated!

More information on Tux Meteor: http://shallowsky.com/software/tuxmeteor.html