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press Next button, you will get the “Choose Your Home Location” page. Here you
can select your exact home location or a city near your home location if your
accurate location is not present in KStars cities database. Browsing the entire list
is not so efficient and thus, KStars provides you a easy-to-use method for
selecting your desired city in a short time. You may filter the list of cities by the
name of your city, province and country. By giving more details about your
location, the list's size will reduced only to its best matches. When you highlight a
city in the cities list, the Longitude and Latitude boxes will be updated, containing
the accurate information of your selected location. When you hit the Next button,
you will get the last page of KStars Setup Wizard: “Download Extra Data
Files” page. Here you may download optional data files via the Internet, in order
to enhance KStars, such as Messier object images, or a more complete NGC/IC
catalog. Press the Download Extra Data button to proceed. After you pressed
the Download Extra Data button, the “Get Hot New Stuff” window will appear. It
is KStars Add-On Installer, which will help you to manage what extra information
you added to KStars. Firstly, you can choose how the add-ons list is displayed, by
pressing the Details view mode or Icons view mode button. You may also order
the list by various criteria like: newest, rating, most downloads or installed. This
can be easily done by selecting an option using the radio button. You can also
make searches using the Search: text box. Regarding the list of add-ons, you may
perform several actions by selecting an add-on from the list: you can install or
uninstall an add-on using the Install / Uninstall button, you can open the Details
window using the Details button or you can rate an add-on by giving a number of
gold stars, up to five stars. If you want to send an email to the author of an add-
on, you are able to do that by clicking on his e-mail address. Then, your default
e-mail application will guide you through the sending process. After you managed
your KStars add-ons, then you can close the window by pressing
the Close button. You can also use the Download Extra Data Files tool later, by
selecting Data →Download New Data....
Popup Menu
The right click popup menu is context-sensitive, meaning its content varies
depending on what kind of object you click on. We list all possible popup menu
items here, with the relevant object type [in brackets].
[All]
Identification and type: The top one to three lines are devoted to the name(s) of
the object, and its type. For stars, the Spectral Type is also shown here.
[All]
Rise, Transit, and Set times for the object on the current simulation date are
shown on the next three lines.
[All]
Center & Track: Center the display on this location, and engage tracking.
Equivalent to double-clicking.
[All]
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