Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.

[Daryl Styrk <darylstyrk@gmail.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/12/09 13:34, Daryl Styrk wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Maybe he needs more RAM?
> 


I should add I haven't tried with a telescope interfaced with it.  Maybe
that's the slow end..