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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 3.2.1 is released on April. 25th, 2019 and can be installed on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and GNU/Linux. +KStars 3.2.2 is released on May. 12th, 2019 and can be installed on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and GNU/Linux.

Features

KStars is probably the most feature-rich free astronomy software. KStars caters to a wide-variety of use cases. Whether you are a student, an educator, an amateur astronomer or an astronomy enthusiast, 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:

Resources


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.

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Webmasters: Jasem Mutlaq, Akarsh Simha
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Choose your OS

Choose your operating system for specific instructions. If your operating system doesn't provide binaries (executable programs), you may need to build KStars from source code.



Microsoft (R) Windows (TM)

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Windows 7,8, 10 64bit installer KStars 3.2.1

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Windows 7,8, 10 64bit installer KStars 3.2.2

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

MacOS

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KStars 3.2.1 DMG Installer is available for MacOS 10.12+. After mounting the DMG, please follow the instructions within the DMG.

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KStars 3.2.2 DMG Installer is available for MacOS 10.12+. After mounting the DMG, please follow the instructions within the DMG.

GNU/Linux

On most GNU/Linux distributions, KStars can be installed from your desktop environment software center (eg: Discover). If not found, you can install the latest KStars on Ubuntu/Mint by typing the following commands in the console:

 sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mutlaqja/ppa
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install indi-full kstars-bleeding
 

Building from source

See Building KStars from Source for details.