Hello
Could anyone recommend some open source astronomy software? I'm looking for something to do the job of "Starry Night" and "Registax" so if anyone has any personal recommendations, I'd love to hear them.
Thanks
Yvonne Everett wrote:
Could anyone recommend some open source astronomy software? I'm looking for something to do the job of "Starry Night" and "Registax" so if anyone has any personal recommendations, I'd love to hear them.
I can recommend Stellarium; it's much like Starry Night Backyard, easy to use, looks great, and ideal for quick "Dad, what's that star called?" questions. Then there is Celestia, which is more flying through space, so you can go look at Mars, visit the "half moon", look at the orbits of planets etc. KStars and XEphem are apparently popular too, but I haven't used them myself.
-- Martijn
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:50:27PM +0100, Martijn Koster wrote:
planets etc. KStars and XEphem are apparently popular too, but I haven't used them myself.
When I tried XEphem it was a nightmare, could never get the thing to compile because of some problem or other. It looked really good, just after a couple of days of trying to get it to build I gave up. YMMV
Adam
On 5/23/07, Martijn Koster mak-alug@greenhills.co.uk wrote:
I can recommend Stellarium;
Wow! That's great. Thanks!
Tim.
Hello
Well now I have feisty fawn on my PC at home I've just got around to try and install Stellarium. However, I've followed the instructions but can't run a "make" within the /tmp/stellarium.0.9.0 directory and therefore cannot load it. Any ideas how to get past this?
Thanks and regards
Von
On 25/05/07, Tim Green timothy.j.green@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/23/07, Martijn Koster mak-alug@greenhills.co.uk wrote:
I can recommend Stellarium;
Wow! That's great. Thanks!
Tim.
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 06:10:51PM +0100, Yvonne Everett wrote:
Well now I have feisty fawn on my PC at home I've just got around to try and install Stellarium. However, I've followed the instructions but can't run a "make" within the /tmp/stellarium.0.9.0 directory and therefore cannot load it. Any ideas how to get past this?
You shouldn't need to build it from scratch as there is a package available. Have a look in the System > Administration > Software Sources app and enable the universe component (if it isn't already enabled). Then go System > Administration > Synaptic Package manager and search for stellarium and tick both bits to install them, click apply and it should get installed.
Your other option might be to type sudo aptitude install stellarium from a command line.
Adam
Many thanks Adam, that's done the trick!!
Regards
Von
On 10/06/07, Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 06:10:51PM +0100, Yvonne Everett wrote:
Well now I have feisty fawn on my PC at home I've just got around to try and install Stellarium. However, I've followed the instructions but can't run a "make" within the /tmp/stellarium.0.9.0 directory and therefore cannot load it. Any ideas how to get past this?
You shouldn't need to build it from scratch as there is a package available. Have a look in the System > Administration > Software Sources app and enable the universe component (if it isn't already enabled). Then go System > Administration > Synaptic Package manager and search for stellarium and tick both bits to install them, click apply and it should get installed.
Your other option might be to type sudo aptitude install stellarium from a command line.
Adam
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On 6/10/07, Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
You shouldn't need to build it from scratch as there is a package available.
It's a great program, apart from the way it stresses my CPU so the fans need to spin up. My PC sounds like it's taking off to reach the stars!
Tim.
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 14:06, Yvonne Everett wrote:
Could anyone recommend some open source astronomy software? I'm looking for something to do the job of "Starry Night" and "Registax" so if anyone has any personal recommendations, I'd love to hear them.
Dunno what http://www.astronomix.org/ is like.. They have a Live CD which you can take for a spin.
Regards, Paul.
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