On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, optimus wrote: .. > Yehey!!! Another KStars fanatic!!! Ever since I started using KStars, > the nasty neck muscle cramps have stopped. The sky in KStars will sync > with the computer's system clock and move appropriately like a real > planetarium as time passes by. :-)
Hi, That's true, But you have to set date to "now" and press the Play button. I would prefer if that was the default. > I'd go for the free KStars any day. The telescope control would be nice > too. Cartes du Ciel is also GPL, although for Windows only. It does have LX200 and ASCOM control, although as the KStars developers said, the CVS version of KStars has LX200 and Celestron control already. It would be nice if they added Telrad finder, binoculars, and eyepiece views. Cartes du Ciel has this already -- you can customize your own eyepiece views based on FOV, e.g. Kellner 40*, Plossl 50*, Nagler (I wish..) 82* apparent field. > I don't think KStars' bulk performance is affected by CPU. I installed > KStars on an AMD-K6-500 mhz, 128MB system memory, SIS 530 8MB RAM video > card. Whenever I start KStars on this machine, the program's startup > loading would take too long. I was talking about the sky-scrolling performance when grabbing with the mouse. Starry Night is much faster. But it seems it can take advantage of OpenGL hardware acceleration. > The only major functionality lacking with KStars is the ability to plot > (or see the schedule of) solar/lunar eclipses, as well as plotting > planetary alignments and solstices. Not for me -- I would like to have telescope finder fields. :) --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
