Based on our record, Universe Sandbox seems to be a lot more popular than KStars. While we know about 41 links to Universe Sandbox, we've tracked only 3 mentions of KStars. 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 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
Kstars is a powerful, flexible astronomy application that you will find useful. Source: over 1 year ago
Printed sky atlases are pretty obsolete, now that we have technology. https://edu.kde.org/kstars/. Source: over 1 year ago
This isn't planet level, but shows surface: https://universesandbox.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 21 days ago
Someone's been having fun playing with Universe Sandbox. Source: 10 months ago
I wonder if it can be run on a gaming GPU? One of my wish list games is ‘universe sandbox’ https://universesandbox.com/. Source: about 1 year ago
Planets and solar systems are buildable with Universe Sandbox (steam), I used it for my main setting. Source: about 1 year ago
I created Universe Sandbox, a realistic physics-based space simulator. I started working on the idea as a side project just for fun back in 2007 and released it on my website for free in 2008. I later transitioned that to a name-your-own-price model and then to a fixed price. When it (now known as Universe Sandbox Legacy) was first released on Steam in 2011, it sold more in the first hour than I'd sold on my... Source: over 1 year ago
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