amusing kde discovery... kstars

[Bryce C]

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If you thought kstars was good, check out Celestia. I have been to the
other side of the known universe  12 billion years from now. Of course,
that's all just projected data then but still. It is sweet. You may also
remember OpenUniverse but it was renamed to Celestia.

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 07:55, David A. Sinck wrote:
> Ok, so there were my kids paying around with knoppix when they ran
> across 'kstars'.  In-computer planetarium.  It's right cool.  Being
> more gnomey than kdey, I hadn't been to the other side.  It certainly
> resolves one problem I had with looking at 'stars' when I was a kid.
> "Mom look!  A star!"  "Which one?"  "I dunno, but it's IN THE
> TELESCOPE."  "How nice, dear."
>=20
> Of course telescopic star gazing still suffers from "that's just a spec
> of light" even when it's a planet in the telescope.  Particularly
> after I think "I've got a planetarium program now that shows specs of
> light, information about them, and is inside."
>=20
> :-)
>=20
> Anyway, if you want to relive childhood memories or assist your kids
> with accurately naming stars/constellations/panets, check out kstars.
>=20
> Available in a package format of your choice.
>=20
> David
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Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
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