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Starry Night (series) VS KStars

Compare Starry Night (series) VS KStars and see what are their differences

Starry Night (series) logo Starry Night (series)

The Starry Night apps are the most comprehensive educational astronomy apps.

KStars logo KStars

KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE.
  • Starry Night (series) Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-06
  • KStars Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-11-23

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KStars videos

Astrophotography: stellarmate kstars and Ekos review

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  • Review - Part 1: Introduction to KStars

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Starry Night (series) and KStars)
Virtual Universe
17 17%
83% 83
Space Simulator
14 14%
86% 86
Education & Reference
17 17%
83% 83
Universe Simulator
20 20%
80% 80

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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.

Starry Night (series) mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Starry Night (series) yet. Tracking of Starry Night (series) 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: 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

What are some alternatives?

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Celestia - Real-time 3D visualization of space

SkyView - SkyView is powerful, easy-to-use app that answers questions about stars, constellations, and more.

Cartes du Ciel (Skychart) - This program enables you to draw sky charts, making use of the data in 16 catalogs of stars and...