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KStars

KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. Created by KDE e.v.

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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 upto 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.

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astronomy stars zodiac planetarium star-mapping planets constellations

KStars was added by eriX in Dec 2011 and the latest update was made in Oct 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Apr 2017 There is a history of all activites on KStars in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on KStars or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

KStars showing the constellation of Orion

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