Revision 2.0.0 (KDE 4.11) (2013-05-14)
Copyright © 2001-2007 Jason Harris and the KStars Team
KStars is a graphical desktop planetarium for KDE. It depicts an accurate simulation of the night sky, including stars, constellations, star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, all planets, the Sun, the Moon, comets and asteroids. You can see the sky as it appears from any location on Earth, on any date. The user interface is highly intuitive and flexible; the display can be panned and zoomed with the mouse, and you can easily identify objects, and track their motion across the sky. KStars includes many powerful features, yet the interface is clean and simple, and fun to use.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Quick Tour of KStars
- 3. Configuring KStars
- 4. Command Reference
- 5. The AstroInfo Project
- AstroInfo: Table of Contents
- Celestial Coordinate Systems
- The Celestial Equator
- The Celestial Poles
- The Celestial Sphere
- The Ecliptic
- The Equinoxes
- Geographic Coordinates
- Great Circles
- The Horizon
- Hour Angle
- The Local Meridian
- Precession
- The Zenith
- Epoch
- Julian Day
- Leap Years
- Sidereal Time
- Time Zones
- Universal Time
- Telescopes
- Blackbody Radiation
- Dark Matter
- Flux
- Luminosity
- Parallax
- Retrograde Motion
- Elliptical Galaxies
- Spiral Galaxies
- Magnitude Scale
- Stars: An Introductory FAQ
- Star Colors and Temperatures
- Cosmic Distance Ladder
- 6. KStars Tools
- 7. Command-Line mode for Image Generation
- 8. Astronomical Device Control with INDI
- 9. Questions and Answers
- 10. Credits and License
- A. Installation
- Index
List of Tables