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The find dialog works to my satisfaction, at last!
I used to find the Find Dialog in KStars rather inconvenient. I’d just hit Ctrl+F to fire it, type away “M 97″, hit enter, and it would land me at Andromeda Galaxy instead of Owl Nebula – Because that...
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Astronomers actually use KStars to control their observatories!
Well, I didn’t expect that people would be using KStars to control observatories! I knew it was capable of that [Implements INDI protocol for control of instruments], but I didn’t know it would...
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Two more bugfixes to KStars
Fixing bad memory management in the Conjunctions Tool – All my fault! Instance management in KSMoon
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KStars loads 41560 stars in 225ms!!!
“We all know Linux is great…it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.” –Linus Torvalds KStars is now no longer far behind, thanks to James Bowlin. James seems to know every bit of computer architecture. One...
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KDE.IN Monsoon Hackathon – Day 1
Day 1 was almost entirely spent by me in the following activities: Install Debian on one of the systems Atul had so kindly provided us with. (They have a local Debian mirror, so it rocks!!) Copy the...
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2.5 million stars in trunk!
Yay! All the machinery for loading 1e6 stars has been moved to trunk and the 2.5-million-star Tycho-2 catalog has moved to the ‘Download Data’ (Get Hot New Stuff) feature. I plan to put up a screencast...
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Memory Management UI – Trial #2.
I’m going on my third north Indian trip tomorrow, spiritual purposes only. So I’m off the net for next 2 days. I happened to hurriedly do this:...
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USNO NOMAD 1e8 Support for KStars – Screenshots
Stars to mag 16.x in KStars SNUStars to mag 16.x in KStars The Core of the Milky Way
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KStars with experimental OpenGL support in RC2
Well, this was a little hurried and late, but I introduced some largish changes into what’s going to become RC2 just a few minutes back. No new strings, to the best of my knowledge. Let me explain what...
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Astro-scripting using KStars' D-Bus interface
I was telling Henry aboutan interesting use case of KStars a few days ago, and hesuggested that I blog about it. I encountered this problem while preparing for a Practical Amateur Astronomy workshop...
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