KStars
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KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at anydate and time. The display includes 126,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids. KStars comes with several tools to aid amateur astronomers of all levels, and a collection of informative articles on astronomical topics. KStars can even be used to control your telescope.
(Note on the version number: the last tarball release was numbered 3.3 to match the KDE version number. We have decided to use our internal version number from now on, which is currently 1.1, and corresponds to KDE-3.4.0).
14 years ago
* Improved NGC/IC catalog
* A GUI Tool for adding custom catalogs
* Improved Object Details window, including customizable thumbnail image
* Allow negative timesteps in Solar System tool
* Highlight objects on the sky which are in the Observing list
* Save/Load Observing Lists
* New Calculator module: Radial velocity conversion
* DCOP functions to store/retrieve user settings
* Can now execute "foreign" DCOP scripts
* INDI: New CCD Preview tool
* INDI: Add support for Apogee CCDs
* INDI: Add support for Meade Lunar Planetary Imager
* INDI: Add support for Sky Commander
* INDI: Add support for Finger Lakes Instruments Filter Wheels
14 years ago
* Improved NGC/IC catalog
* A GUI Tool for adding custom catalogs
* Improved Object Details window, including customizable thumbnail image
* Allow negative timesteps in Solar System tool
* Highlight objects on the sky which are in the Observing list
* Save/Load Observing Lists
* New Calculator module: Radial velocity conversion
* DCOP functions to store/retrieve user settings
* Can now execute "foreign" DCOP scripts
* INDI: New CCD Preview tool
* INDI: Add support for Apogee CCDs
* INDI: Add support for Meade Lunar Planetary Imager
* INDI: Add support for Sky Commander
* INDI: Add support for Finger Lakes Instruments Filter Wheels
fearmac
Nov 09 2009
Support-Box
KStars is part of Apps, Games and Add-ons, which is supported by the following people:
Other Science:
Hoonakwa
11 years ago
http://www.ioptron.com/products_con.aspx?pro=GO%20TO%20MOUNTS&id=39
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bamm
13 years ago
That said, I still think the commercial program SkyMap Pro by Chris Marriott is the best desktop planetarium for my needs as an amateur astronomer. It has a much larger database and provides much more information than KStars on most objects, and uses a higher level of accuracy for calculations just what I need for predicting astronomical events. I run SkyMap in Wine under Linux with little problems. Its author is very helpful in his support forum.
These are the points I think KStars can still improve on. Kudos to the KStars team.
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mindcooker
14 years ago
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linux3114a
14 years ago
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http://home.tiscali.be/raoul.linux/downloadSuSE10.0.htm
ENJOY !!!
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gohanz
14 years ago
http://www.slacky.it/
http://www.slacky.it/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=1&func=fileinfo&filecatid=1040&parent=category
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NGC1942
14 years ago
the catalogs one can add to KStars? I refering to additional Catalogs in the setup Wizard. . . I would like to install additional catalogs if I knew where to find them. . . . Maybe you can point us into the right direction to obtain and install these. . .
Thanks for a great program.
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neonp
15 years ago
#make
Following are the errors:
.......
.......make[3]: *** [extdatetime.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/neo/Softwares/kstars-1.1/libkdeedu/extdate'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/neo/Softwares/kstars-1.1/libkdeedu'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/neo/Softwares/kstars-1.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
I have also tried using the patch but still it doesn't works.
Can anyone give me the solution??
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linux3114a
16 years ago
http://home.tiscali.be/raoul.linux/download.htm
My participation....
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LMCBoy
16 years ago
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linux3114a
15 years ago
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tholti
16 years ago
One feature I am still missing though is a fullscreen mode for the sky map. Combined with the night view mode this would be very useful helper on a notebook for watching the stars at night.
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LMCBoy
16 years ago
You will be happy to hear that a true fullscreen mode already exists in CVS. We are also adding an option where the kstars window can adjust its color scheme to a dark-vision theme to match the dark-vision theme of the sky map. (Without this, you'd still have a brightly-colored menubar, toolbar and statusbar, even in fullscreen mode)
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wstokes
17 years ago
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