The KDE Education Project
KStars
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Version 1.2.5
© 2001-2008 the KStars Team KStars is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2. Original Author:
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Description
KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.
Latest News
| Date | Headline |
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| March 12th, 2007 | Updated Daylight Savings Time rules |
| March 13th, 2006 | KStars-1.2 released |
| March 6th, 2006 | Comets and Asteroids Updated |
| March 2th, 2006 | KStars Community Forums |
| June 29th, 2005 | Introducing: SVN snapshot releases |
| June 5th, 2005 | Comets and Asteroids updated |
| March 29th, 2005 | KStars 1.1-p1: Important fix for KDE 3.3.x users! |
| March 27th, 2005 | KStars 1.1 available for download |
| March 22th, 2005 | New Features Tour for KDE 3.4 release |
| March 10th, 2005 | Join the KStars Data Team! |
Download:
The official version of KStars is the version shipped with the KDE Edutainment module. However, we also offer an independent tarball of the KStars code for download. Our latest release is based on the KDE_3_5_BRANCH codebase, shortly after KDE 3.5.2 was tagged.
kstars-1.2.tar.bz2
(7 MB)
(this is an indirect link, so don't use "Save link as...")
You may also be interested in our periodic SVN snapshot releases, or perhaps you'd like to download the SVN code directly.
Note on version numbers: the last tarball release was called "3.3 snapshot", but the internal version of that release was 1.0.x. We have decided to return to using our internal version numbers for these tarball releases. Sorry for any confusion.
Note to packagers: If your distribution normally ships a kdeedu package, rather than individual packages for each app, please do not package this release. If a user installs a kstars-only package, they may have problems trying to install a kdeedu package later.
Join Us!
Interested in helping develop KStars? We need programmers, of course, but even if you don't code, we can still use your help. If you are an astronomy enthusiast, there is our AstroInfo project. We could also use help writing documentation and translating. Even bug reports and feature requests are a big help, so keep them coming!
You can also subscribe to the kstars-devel mailing list to keep up with the latest KStars activities.
Webmaster: Jason Harris
Last update: 2008-01-11
