Hi, Am now using Kstars and Ekos, but is there a complete guide to this software, maybe one I can download and print out to form a reference book of some sort. 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. (part of the KStars Handbook accessible through the Help menu). • Set the time ahead by a couple years to see the effects of precession.
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For advanced users, KStars provides Ekos, a complete astrophotography suite for Linux. Ekos is based on a modular extensible framework to perform common astrophotography tasks. You can also use the automated bug reporting tool, accessible from the Help menu.
Our Astrocalculator tool provides direct access to many of the algorithms the program uses behind the scenes, including coordinate converters and time calculators. Several popular CCD cameras, webcams, and computerized focusers are also supported.
It provides an accurate graphical representation of the night sky for any date, from any location on Earth.
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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. Table of Contents 1.
Carsten Niehaus Core Developer: KStars lets handblok explore the night sky from the comfort of your computer chair. Jason Harris kstars 30doradus. You can optimize the caching options to best balance between disk space versus bandwidth.
We are very interested in your feedback; please report bugs or feature requests to the KStars development mailing list: This includes highly accurate GOTOs using astrometry solver, ability to measure and correct katars alignment errorsauto-focus and auto-guide capabilities, and capture of single or stack of images with filter wheel support.
KStars is free, open source, cross-platform Astronomy Software. This features requires a fast internet connection in order to download the images. If that is too much detail, we also provide a What’s Up Tonight?
The display provides a compelling interface to a number of tools with which you can learn more about astronomy and the night sky.
You can select from numerous catalogs compiled from different earth and space based missions. In addition, KStars includes Habdbook functions that allow you to write complex scriptsmaking KStars a powerful “demo engine” for classroom use or general illustration of astronomical topics. You can even gandbook your own Internet links, images and text notes, making KStars a graphical front-end to your observing logs and your personal astronomical notebook.
Jasem Mutlaq Core Developer: The display includes up to million stars, 13, deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets, asteroids, supernovae, and satellites. Pablo de Vicente Core Developer: From an object’s popup menu, you can open its Detailed Information Windowwhere you can examine positional data about the object, and query a huge treasury of online databases for professional-grade astronomical data and literature references about the object.
Chapter 1. Introduction
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. Heiko Evermann Core Developer: To this end, the KStars Handbook includes the AstroInfo Projecta series of short, hyperlinked articles on astronomical topics that can be explored with KStars.
Questions and Answers 9. You can plan an observing session using our Altitude vs. Find out interesting objects in ksyars “What’s up Tonight” tool, plot altitude vs.
Deep-sky objects Catalogues 7. There is also a Jupiter Moons Tool which shows the positions of Jupiter’s four largest moons as a function of time. Credits and License Index. Thomas Kabelmann Core Developer: The display includesstars to 9th magnitude million with addon catalogs13, deep-sky objects Messier, NGC, and IC catalogsall planets, the Sun and Moon, hundreds of comets and asteroids, the Milky Way, 88 constellations, and guide lines such as the celestial equatorthe horizon and the ecliptic.
There is a context-sensitive popup menu attached to each displayed object, which displays object-specific information and actions. The images are cached locally to reduce bandwidth. Time tool, which will plot curves representing the Altitude as a function of time for any group of objects. However, KStars is not just for students. Hundreds of objects provide links in their popup menus to informative web pages and beautiful images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories.
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.
The KStars Handbook
It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at ksatrs date and time. HiPS all-sky progressive overlay provide stunning views from numerous surveys spanning the whole electromagnetic spectrum.
List of Tables 3. Akarsh Simha Core Developer:
