KStars
Screenshot of KStars showing the night sky from Hanover |
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| Developer(s) | KDE developers |
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| Stable release | 1.5.0 / January 2009 |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Educational software |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://edu.kde.org/kstars/ |
KStars is a planetarium program using the KDE Platform for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides an accurate graphical representation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes up to 2.5 million stars (with additional addons), 13,000 deep sky objects, all 88 constellations, all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids. It has features to appeal to users of all levels, from informative hypertext articles about astronomy, to robust control of telescopes and CCD cameras, and logging of observations of specific objects.
KStars has been packaged by many Linux/BSD distributions, including Red Hat Linux, openSUSE, Mandriva Linux, and Debian GNU/Linux. Some distributions package KStars as a separate application, some just provide a kdeedu package, which includes KStars. KStars is distributed with the KDE Software Compilation as part of the kdeedu "Edutainment" module.
KStars participated in Google Summer of Code in 2008,[1] 2009[2] and 2010.[3] It is participating in the first run of ESA's Summer of Code in Space in 2011.[4]
It has been identified as one of the three best "Linux stargazing apps" in a Linux.com review.[5]
The latest version of KStars is 1.5.0, released with KDE SC 4.2 through 4.6. Released under the GNU General Public License, KStars is free software.
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[edit] References
- ^ List of 2008's successful participants, Google Summer of Code, KML file
- ^ Google Summer of Code 2009 Accepted Projects, accessed 2011-04-23
- ^ Google Summer of Code 2010 Accepted Projects, accessed 2011-04-23
- ^ Selected mentoring organizations, ESA Summer of Code in Space 2011. Accessed 2011-07-29.
- ^ http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/475400-explore-the-universe-the-three-best-linux-stargazing-apps
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