How to Install KStars 2.8.7 on Ubuntu 17.10

    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.

KStars 2.8.7 features:

•     Change your geographic location to see how the view of the sky changes with latitude
•     Understand the difference between sidereal days and solar days by changing the speed of simulation
•     Attach trails to planets and set a high simulation rate to see their trajectories as they perform retrograde motion

How to install Stellarium 0.16.1 on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04

   Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

Version 0.16.1 is based on Qt 5.6.2, but it can still be built from sources with Qt 5.4.
This version is bugfix release with some important features:

• Added moons of Saturn, Uranus and Pluto
• Added improvements for AstroCalc tool
• DSO catalog was updated to version 3.2:
• Added support 'The Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae' (Acker+, 1992)

How to install Stellarium 0.16.0 on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04

    Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

Stellarium 0.16.0 is a stable version (based on Qt5.6 but it can still be built from sources with Qt5.4) that introduces some new features and closes 38 bug and wishlist reports.

New features include

•  RemoteSync plugin, which allows running several connected instances of Stellarium.
•  Nonspherical models for solar system objects like asteroids and small moons.
•  Solar system config file is now split into two parts.

How to install Stellarium 0.15.2 on Ubuntu 17.04

    Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

Stellarium 0.15.2 changelog :

•   Added new algorithm for DeltaT from Stephenson, Morrison and Hohenkerk (2016)
•   Added use QOpenGLWidget
•   Added new option to InfoString group
•   Added orbit visualization data for asteroids
•   Added calculation of extincted magnitudes of satellites

How to Install KStars 2.7.5 on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10

    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.

KStars 2.7.5 features:

•     Change your geographic location to see how the view of the sky changes with latitude
•     Understand the difference between sidereal days and solar days by changing the speed of simulation
•     Attach trails to planets and set a high simulation rate to see their trajectories as they perform retrograde motion

How to Install KStars 2.7.4 on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10

    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.

KStars 2.7.4 features:

•     Change your geographic location to see how the view of the sky changes with latitude
•     Understand the difference between sidereal days and solar days by changing the speed of simulation

How to Install Planetarium App KStars 2.7.2 on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10

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.

KStars 2.7.2 features:

•     Graphical simulation of the sky with the planets, up to 100 million stars, 10000 deep-sky objects, comets and asteroids. Adjustable simulation rate.

How to Install Planetarium App KStars 2.7.0 on Ubuntu 16.10

    KStars 2.7.0 is released on Oct. 28th, 2016 and can be installed on a number of platforms, most notably Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux.

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.

KStars 2.7.0 features:

•     much better experience on embedded devices such as Raspberry PI
•     object internet lookup from online catalogs
•     Ekos GUI improvements, especially on low-resolution displays.
•     guide module rewritten to support multiple external guiders

How to install Stellarium 0.15.0 on Ubuntu

   Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

Stellarium 0.15.0 changelog :

• Added getting planetary positions from JPL DE430 and DE431 ephemerides
• Added RemoteControl and preliminary RemoteSync plugins
• Added StelProperty system
• Added immediate saving of settings for plugins
• Added Belarusian translation for landscapes and sky cultures
• Added Bengali description for landscapes and sky cultures
• Added new skycultures: Macedonian, Ojibwe, Dakota/Lakota/Nakota, Kamilaroi/Euahlayi
• Added support Off-Axis Guider feature in Oculars plugin
• Added support permanent rotation angle for CCD in Oculars plugin
• Added type of mount for telescopes in Oculars plugin