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Desktop Earth VS KStars

Compare Desktop Earth VS KStars and see what are their differences

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Desktop Earth logo Desktop Earth

You should run it as admin.

KStars logo KStars

KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE.
  • Desktop Earth Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-03-09
  • KStars Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-11-23

Desktop Earth videos

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KStars videos

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Astrophotography: stellarmate kstars and Ekos review

More videos:

  • Review - Part 1: Introduction to KStars

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Desktop Earth and KStars)

Desktop Earth

KStars

Personalization
100 100%
Personalization
0% 0
Space Simulator
0 0%
Space Simulator
100% 100
Maps
100 100%
Maps
0% 0
Virtual Universe
0 0%
Virtual Universe
100% 100

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, KStars seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Desktop Earth mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Desktop Earth yet. Tracking of Desktop Earth recommendations started around Mar 2021.

KStars mentions (3)

  • Is there a utility that will read my FITS files and map the image size and locations on a sky map?
    KStars can do this. It can either use the World Coordinate System data from the FITS file or plate-solve to derive the location from the image data. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Best FOSS Astronomy Software
    Kstars is a powerful, flexible astronomy application that you will find useful. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Maps of the stars
    Printed sky atlases are pretty obsolete, now that we have technology. https://edu.kde.org/kstars/. Source: over 1 year ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Desktop Earth and KStars, you can also consider the following products

EarthView - Free Cloud Data Download

Stellarium - Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer.

TerraTime - TerraTime provides an amazing, interactive, real-time virtual Earth.

Sky Map - Sky Map (formerly the Google Sky Map) turns your Android-powered mobile phone into a window on the...

Xplanet - Xplanet is free software, distributed according to the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Celestia - Real-time 3D visualization of space

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