2.5 million stars in trunk!
July 14, 2008
Yay! All the machinery for loading 1e6 stars has been moved to trunk and the 2.5-million-star Tycho-2 catalog has moved to the ‘Download Data’ (Get Hot New Stuff) feature. I plan to put up a screencast on how to use this and the conjunction tool from KStars sometime, along with a whole lot of other features.
To get the Tycho-2 deep catalog, just click on File->Download Data and click ‘Install’ next to ‘Tycho-2 Star Catalog’.
Entry Filed under: GNU/Linux/FOSS, KStars, astronomy. Tags: GSoC, KDE, kstars, Tycho-2.
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Carlos Scarsi | September 2, 2008 at 3:53 am
Hi. I’m new in linux and kstars. My kstars only goes up to mag 9, not 12. The tycho-2 catalog is installed. I’m using it on ubuntu (gnome). Do you know why? Thank you very much. Carlos Scarsi
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Akarsh Simha | September 20, 2008 at 1:02 pm
@Carlos: Sorry for such a late response. It is probably because you aren’t using the latest version.
The Tycho-2 catalog works only with KDE 4.1.60 or something like that (and above). Currently, the 2.5 million stars are in what we call the ‘trunk’ (the source code that developers work on). You will either need to wait till Ubuntu ships the new version of KStars or compile it from the sources.
Mail me at akarshsimha () gmail ! com if you need a faster response. (Replace the brackets by @ and ! by .)