Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.

[Daryl Styrk <darylstyrk@gmail.com>]

David Baron wrote:
> Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a "cybersky" program which would 
> not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, 
> Celestia and Kstars.
> 
> Kstars is simple soooo slooooow as to be unusable. Celestia, on the other 
> hand, performs quite well, even with my "legacy" Nvidia card. Only problem is 
> that most of the planet images are blank, simply a light disk. Must be missing 
> something. Where do get the data? Installed off Sid.
> 
> 

I've used kstars, I didn't find it slow at all.. What exactly was slow
about it?