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KStars VS EarthDesk

Compare KStars VS EarthDesk and see what are their differences

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KStars logo KStars

KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE.

EarthDesk logo EarthDesk

Xeric Design, Ltd. is a leader in global time and mapping software.
  • KStars Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-11-23
  • EarthDesk Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-01-22

KStars videos

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Astrophotography: stellarmate kstars and Ekos review

More videos:

  • Review - Part 1: Introduction to KStars

EarthDesk videos

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EarthDesk Screencast - MacUpdate Promo

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to KStars and EarthDesk)

KStars

EarthDesk

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

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: about 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

EarthDesk mentions (0)

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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

EarthView - Free Cloud Data Download

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

Desktop Earth - You should run it as admin.

Celestia - Real-time 3D visualization of space

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

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