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19 kstars \- a desktop planetarium for KDE
22 .RI "[ " generic-options " ]"
23 [ \fB\-\-date\fP \fIdate-and-time\fP ]
26 .B kstars \fB\-\-dump\fP
27 [ \fB\-\-filename\fP \fIimage-file\fP ]
28 [ \fB\-\-height\fP \fIpixels\fP ] [ \fB\-\-width\fP \fIpixels\fP ]
29 [ \fB\-\-date\fP \fIdate-and-time\fP ]
30 [ \fB\-\-script\fP \fIscript-file\fP ]
32 \fBKStars\fP is a graphical desktop planetarium for KDE. It depicts an
33 accurate simulation of the night sky, including stars, constellations,
34 star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, all planets, the Sun, the Moon,
35 comets and asteroids. You can see the sky as it appears from any
36 location on Earth, on any date.
38 The user interface is highly intuitive and flexible. The display can
39 be panned and zoomed with the mouse, and you can easily identify
40 objects and track their motion across the sky. KStars includes many
41 powerful features, yet the interface is clean and simple and fun to use.
43 Normally KStars launches a full graphical user interface. By passing the
44 \fB\-\-dump\fP option, you can make KStars dump an image of the sky to
45 a graphics file and exit immediately without launching a graphical user
46 interface at all. Several other options are available to control
47 precisely how this image is dumped.
49 This application is part of the official KDE edutainment module.
51 Below are the kstars-specific options.
52 For a full summary of options, run \fIkstars \-\-help\fP.
54 Options that can be used when starting the full graphical user interface
57 \fB\-\-date\fP \fIdate-and-time\fP
58 Starts with the simulation clock set to the given date and time (default is
59 current date and time).
62 Starts with the simulation clock paused.
64 Options that can be used when dumping an image of the sky are as
68 Dumps the sky image to a graphics file and exits immediately.
69 Several other options (described below) are available to control
70 precisely how the image is dumped.
72 \fB\-\-date\fP \fIdate-and-time\fP
73 Specifies the date and time for the sky image to dump (default is
74 current date and time).
76 \fB\-\-filename\fP \fIimage-file\fP
77 Dumps the sky image to the given file (default is \fIkstars.png\fP).
79 \fB\-\-height\fP \fIpixels\fP
80 Specifies the height of the sky image to dump (default is 480).
82 \fB\-\-script\fP \fIscript-file\fP
83 Specifies a DCOP script to run before the sky image is dumped.
84 The script can be used to set where the image is pointing, set the
85 geographic location, set the time and date, change the zoom level, and
86 adjust other view options.
88 KStars includes a script builder (found in the Tools menu) to help
89 with writing DCOP scripts. The full user documentation (discussed
90 below) contains a more detailed explanation of how such scripts can
93 \fB\-\-width\fP \fIpixels\fP
94 Specifies the width of the sky image to dump (default is 640).
98 Full user documentation is available through the KDE Help Centre.
99 You can also enter the URL
101 directly into konqueror or you can run
102 `\fIkhelpcenter help:/kstars/\fP'
103 from the command-line.
105 If the KDE Help Centre is not installed then you can install the package
106 \fIkdeedu-doc-html\fP and read this documentation in HTML format from
107 \fI/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kstars/\fP.
109 KStars was written by Jason Harris <jharris@30doradus.org>,
110 Heiko Evermann <heiko@evermann.de>, Thomas Kabelmann <tk78@gmx.de>,
111 Pablo de Vicente <pvicentea@wanadoo.es>, Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja@ikarustech.com>,
112 Carsten Niehaus <cniehaus@gmx.de>, Mark Hollomon <mhh@mindspring.com>,
113 Vincent Jagot <vincent.jagot@free.fr> and
114 Martin Piskernig <martin.piskernig@stuwo.at>.
116 This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>
117 for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).