Another free planetarium software is Celestia. It runs on Windows, Linux and Mac. This software not only shows you the sky from Earth, but also allows you to 'fly' to other locations and view the sky from there. Stellarium is a free GPL software program which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. AstroGrav Astronomy Software - Freeware Download AstroGrav is a full-featured, high precision solar system simulator that calculates the gravitational interactions between all astronomical bodies, so that the motions of asteroids and comets are simulated much more accurately than with planetarium applications. Mac Astronomy and Astrophotography software I currently collect and edit all of my astrophotography images on a PC computer, but what about Mac users? The post-processing side of things is easy, Mac users can use Photoshop, Lightroom, PixInsight, or any other of the premium creative tools.

KStars

Description

KStars is free, open source, cross-platform Astronomy Software. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes up to 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets, asteroids, supernovae, and satellites. For students and teachers, it supports adjustable simulation speeds in order to view phenomena that happen over long timescales, the KStars Astrocalculator to predict conjunctions, and many common astronomical calculations.

For the amateur astronomer, it provides an observation planner, a sky calendar tool, and an FOV editor to calculate field of view of equipment and display them. Find out interesting objects in the 'What's up Tonight' tool, plot altitude vs. time graphs for any object, print high-quality sky charts, and gain access to lots of information and resources to help you explore the universe!Included with KStars is Ekos astrophotography suite, a complete astrophotography solution that can control all INDI devices including numerous telescopes, CCDs, DSLRs, focusers, filters, and a lot more. Ekos supports highly accurate tracking using online and offline astrometry solver, autofocus and autoguiding capabilities, and capture of single or multiple images using the powerful built in sequence manager.

Have a look at the Feature listing for more.

KStars Lite for Android

Get KStars Lite for Android on Google Play Store. KStars Lite supports many features of the desktop version optimized for tablet/phone use. It supports telescope and camera control, color schemes, and different projection systems. Just point it any where in the night sky and identify what objects and constellations you are looking at, plus a lot more!

KStars for Windows/OSX/Linux

KStars 3.5.5 is released on Sep. 16th, 2021 and can be installed on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and GNU/Linux.

• Release Notes: Overview of v3.5.5 Changes
• Windows Download: KStars 3.5.5 Installer for Windows 7, 8, & 10.

  Use Quick Hash GUI to verify the integrity of the executable file. The following are MD5 and SHA256 hashes:

• MacOS Download: KStars 3.5.5 DMG Installer is available for MacOS 10.13+. After mounting the DMG, please follow the instructions within the DMG.
• Snap Packages: Install the latest and stable KStars on many linux distributions using Snap.
• Linux Download: Install KStars from your Linux distribution software center. Under Ubuntu/Mint, you can install the latest KStars by typing the following commands in the console:
• Source Tarball: KStars 3.5.5 Source tarball mirror list is availabe to build from source.
• For other platforms, see our Installation Page for instructions.

Features

KStars is probably the most feature-rich free astronomysoftware. KStars caters to a wide-variety of use cases. Whether youare a student, an educator, an amateur astronomer or an astronomyenthusiast, you will find tools in KStars that are useful to you.

Click here to see a full listing of features, organized by use case.

Short summary of important features:

• Graphical simulation of the sky with the planets, up to 100 million stars, 10000 deep-sky objects, comets and asteroids. Adjustable simulation rate.
• Access to several internet resources for information, imagery and data
• Complete astrophotography workflow
• A host of tools that predict conjunctions, plot time variation of positions of planets, perform calculations etc.
• Powerful observation planner to plan your observations.

Resources

• GSoC Guide - Google Summer of Code guide for new prospective students.
• KStars Web Chat.
• KStars Handbook — Detailed KStars manual
• KStars API — KStars API documentation
• KStars Deek Sky Catalogs — Catalogs documentation
• Git repository — hosts the latest code of KStars
• The kstars-devel mailing list — for developers of KStars and enthusiasts to discuss
• Ekos — Complete astrophotography and observatory control framework
• INDI — protocol to operate astronomical instruments

Credits

Original Author: Jason Harris
Current Maintainer: Jasem Mutlaq
INDI/Ekos: Jasem Mutlaq
For our full credits list, see our contributors' page.

Problems and Bugs

To report a bug against KStars, you can use the KDE bug reporting interface. Choose'kstars' as the product to file the bug against.

KStars has a lot of known issues, and many unknown issues. In either case, reporting a bug is always helpful. If you find problems with KStars, you are also most welcome to tell us on our mailing list or on our Web Chat channel where you can chat directly with developers and users. For some of these issues, there are temporary workarounds, and asking on the mailing list will help you discover these antidotes for smyptomatic relief. We welcome your feedback, and discussion on both the mailing list and IRC channel. See the Join Us section for more information and pointers.

Join Us!

Interested in KStars? Found KStars useful? Come by our mailinglist and share your suggestions, and tell us what you liked / whatyou did not like. Any feedback and help will be appreciated.

If you know how to program, you're welcome to join our developer team!See thispage to build KStars from source. Most developer discussionhappens on our mailinglist, so if you need help, that's a good place to ask. KStars iswritten in C++ using Qt and KDE libraries.

If you are an astronomy enthusiast, there is our AstroInfo project. We could also use helpwriting documentation and translating. Even bug reports and featurerequests are a big help, so keep them coming!

Some pointers to get started:

• Join our mailing list
• Hang out on our IRC channel: #kde-kstars on the freenode network. Click here to join the channel.
• Details on building KStars git master are here
• Some junior and not-so-junior jobs here!

Check out these other free and open source astronomy software

• Stellarium: Stellarium has the most aesthetic rendering of the sky map. Ideal for giving public shows. Has a larger star catalog than KStars. It can distort images for projection on fish-eye planetarium projectors.
• SkyChart (Cartes du Ciel): Cartes du Ciel has the largest database of astronomical objects for any free software. It has support for the very very extensive star catalog, PPMXL. Also has tons of other downloadable catalogs.

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