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KStars is a high quality planetarium program and at the same time a very powerful astronomy tool provided by the KDE Community. It is a free open-source software able to provide an accurate graphical representation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes up to 100 million stars with additional add-ons, 13000+ deep sky objects, constellations, star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, all planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids. During Google Summer of Code 2016, we brought KStars to Windows. Therefore, this task aims you to install KStars on Windows and play with its very cool tools including:

• „Altitude vs. Time” : a tool that can plot in a very intuitive way the altitude of a sky object as a function of time, for any date and location on Earth.
• The “What's Up Tonight?” : a tool that displays a list of objects that will be visible at night from any location, on any date. By using it, you can quickly find out what objects you can observe in the sky tonight.