Screenshot of KStars showing the night sky from Hanover.

KStars is a planetarium program that runs under GNU/Linux and other Unix like operating systems. It is part of KDE. Download high resolution version (1280x1024, 168 KB)created by myself with KStars and put under GFDL File links The following pages link to this file: KStars Categories: GFDL images ... Download high resolution version (1280x1024, 168 KB)created by myself with KStars and put under GFDL File links The following pages link to this file: KStars Categories: GFDL images ... Map of Germany showing Hanover Hanover (German: Hannover [haˈnoːfɐ]), on the river Leine, is the capital of the state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany. ... A planetarium is a theater built for presenting shows about astronomy and the night sky. ... GNU/Linux is the name of the operating system commonly referred today only as Linux. ... KDE (K Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment and development platform built with Trolltechs Qt toolkit. ...

It provides an accurate graphical representation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes up to 126,000 stars, 13,000 deep sky objects, all 88 constellations, all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids. It has features to appeal to users of all levels, from informative hypertext articles about astronomy, to robust control of telescopes and CCD cameras. The Pleiades star cluster A star is any massive gaseous body in outer space just like the Sun. ... Deep sky object (DSO) is a term used often in amateur astronomy to denote objects in the night sky other than solar system objects (such as planets, comets and asteroids), single stars and multiple star systems. ... Orion is a remarkable constellation, visible from most places on the globe (but not always the whole year long). ... A Sun is the star at the center of a solar system. ... Crust composition Oxygen 43% Silicon 21% Aluminium 10% Calcium 9% Iron 9% Magnesium 5% Titanium 2% Nickel 0. ... Comet Hale-Bopp, showing a white dust tail and blue gas tail (February 1997) A comet is a small astronomical object similar to an asteroid but composed largely of ice. ... An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... 50 cm refracting telescope at Nice Observatory. ... A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a sensor for recording images, consisting of an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, capacitors. ...

External links

• KStars project webpage (http://edu.kde.org/kstars/)