As somewhat of an astronomy hobbyist, I must say that I do not like Stellarium.
Stellarium is not an astronomy software / planner per se, but more of a "sky simulator." So it has neat features like photorealistic OpenGL sky that I don't need, and it has no features (like easy adding of comet ephemera, observation planning....) that I want. TBH the best software I've tried is Starry Night Backyard 3.0 (an ancient circa 1998 closed-source program). The current version of Starry Night is way too bloated. Have not tried TheSky or Megastar or Cyanogen DesktopUniverse because these cost a lot of cash. If you want free, Cartes du Ciel is OK. but I still prefer KStars, too bad it only runs on Linux. I've had it with Linux dual-boot. Maybe i should buy a Neo subnotebook and run Linux on it... On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 7:20 PM, eric pareja <[email protected]> wrote: > how does http://stellarium.org fare? not gnome specific, but open > source and multi-platform. > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Although there is one KDE app which has no GNOME equal, and that is KStars. > -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
