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KStars VS Xplanet

Compare KStars VS Xplanet and see what are their differences

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KStars logo KStars

KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE.

Xplanet logo Xplanet

Xplanet is free software, distributed according to the terms of the GNU General Public License.
  • KStars Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-11-23
  • Xplanet Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-03-17

KStars

Categories
  • Space Simulator
  • Virtual Universe
  • Universe Simulator
  • Education & Reference
Website apps.kde.org
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Xplanet

Categories
  • Personalization
  • Maps
  • Web Mapping
  • Live Traffic
Website xplanet.sourceforge.net
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KStars videos

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Astrophotography: stellarmate kstars and Ekos review

More videos:

  • Review - Part 1: Introduction to KStars

Xplanet videos

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40k Tournament Review - XPlanet - Toronto

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to KStars and Xplanet)

KStars

Xplanet

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

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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

Xplanet mentions (0)

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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Desktop Earth - You should run it as admin.

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

EarthView - Free Cloud Data Download

Celestia - Real-time 3D visualization of space

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

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