Kstars

Kstars - Desktop planetarium for KDE

KStars is a graphical desktop planetarium. It plots the positions of stars, constellations, star clusters, nebulae, galaxies and planets in the night sky for any date, from any location on Earth. The display can be panned and zoomed, and it can even identify and track objects as they move across the sky. KStars is highly configurable, you can control what objects are displayed, and with what colors. Images of any part of the sky can be downloaded from online databases. Our plan is to make KStars an interactive tool for learning about astronomy and the night sky.

Obtaining

Web page	http://kstars.sourceforge.net/
Source tarball	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kstars/kstars-0.8.2.tar.gz
Source information	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22914

Version 0.8 (stable) released on 2001-12-14

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User guide available in HTML format from http://kstars.sourceforge.net/handbook/index.html; User guide available as a tarball from http://kstars.sourceforge.net/kstarsdocs.tar.gz

Support contacts

Announce List	<kstars-announce@lists.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=22914
Help List	<kstars-users@lists.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=22914
Developer List	<kstars-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=22914
Bug Database	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id-22914&atid=376945

Project contacts

Maintainers	Jason Harris <kstars@30doradus.org>
Developers	Jason Harris <kstars@30doradus.org> Heiko Evermann <heiko@evermann.de> Thomas Kabelmann <tk78@gmx.de>
Contributors	Martin Piskernig <martin.piskernig@stuwo.at> Vincent Jagot <vincent.jagot@free.fr> Alex Mondshain <alex_mon@users.sourceforge.net>

Related information

Source repository	:pserver:anonymous@cvs.kstars.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/kstars http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=22914
Interfaces	X Window System
Source languages	C++
Use requirements	KDE
Build prerequisites	libqt2-devel, kdelibs-devel, XFree86-devel, zlib-devel
Related programs	Hitchhiker 2000, GNUSkies, Celestia, Sunclock

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-12-14
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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