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Hello Ronn!, Hello all:<br>
<br>
I started my old notebook and installed KDE4.4 for testing the
WinKDE and KStars.<br>
<br>
KStars with USNO is working properly, with some obstacles:<br>
<br>
Downloading ends with an error (maybe the same "2GB bug" as in the
old linux version. i could'nt verify this).<br>
The unziped tar file is stored in the systems temp-dir correctly,
but "untaring" this file fails.<br>
<br>
Therefore before you do the stuff below, you should have a look into
this directory(ies):<br>
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\.kde\share\apps\kstars <br>
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\.kde\tmp-COMPUTERNAME<br>
<br>
maybe you find a "kstars-xxx.tar" file with the USNO-data in there.
Unzip it into the KSTars dir.<br>
USNO-NOMAD-1e8.dat must have a file size bigger than 2GB (2,02GB or
so - 2122186KB on my system).<br>
<br>
if there is no such file, download it here
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://download.kde.org/apps/kstars/USNO-NOMAD-1e8-1.0.tar.gz">"http://download.kde.org/apps/kstars/USNO-NOMAD-1e8-1.0.tar.gz"</a><br>
and store the downloaded file in "Your KDE4 base
DIR\share\apps\kstars".<br>
<br>
For downloading large files it's best to use a downloadmanager (i'm
using the Firefox Add-On 'DownThemAll').<br>
<br>
Decompress it (eg, with 7Zip). At Last you should get ->
"USNO-NOMAD-1e8.dat". You need >4GB free disk space for doing
this.<br>
<br>
Start KStars, go to KStars settings and set
"star-catalogs->star-density" to a level you prefer and have fun.
:)<br>
<br>
After unzipping is done you could securely remove
"NOMAD-1e8-1.0.tar.gz", "NOMAD-1e8-1.0.tar" and all "kstars-xxx.tar"
temp files and free lot's of disk space.<br>
<br>
AND: Before this, you have to install "Tycho-2" data, without this,
USNO will not showing up.<br>
If installation of Tycho-2 fails, got to the directories mentioned
above and search for a file called "deepstars.dat" (75390KB on my
system). <br>
Copy it into the KStars directory. <br>
After that, USNO should work.<br>
<br>
For the developers: <br>
If some file is missing, the others are failing to. Maybe we should
change this? <br>
102 int StarComponent::loadDeepStarCatalogs() {<br>
103 <br>
104 // Look for the basic unnamed star catalog to mag 8.0<br>
105 if( !addDeepStarCatalogIfExists( "unnamedstars.dat", -5.0,
true ) )<br>
106 return 0;<br>
107 <br>
108 // Look for the Tycho-2 add-on with 2.5 million stars to mag
12.5<br>
109 if( !addDeepStarCatalogIfExists( "tycho2.dat" , 8.0 )
&& !addDeepStarCatalogIfExists( "deepstars.dat", 8.0 ) )<br>
110 return 1;<br>
111 <br>
112 // Look for the USNO NOMAD 1e8 star catalog add-on with
stars to mag 16<br>
113 if( !addDeepStarCatalogIfExists( "USNO-NOMAD-1e8.dat", 11.0
) )<br>
114 return 2;<br>
115 <br>
116 return 3;<br>
117 } <br>
<br>
<br>
hth<br>
<br>
btw: you should update the comets.dat and asteroids.dat from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mpcreader.sourceforge.net/">http://mpcreader.sourceforge.net/</a> to get updated orbital data.<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;"><br>
> USNO NOMAD catalog (part)." Clearing that pop-up and
pressing that <br>
> "Install" button again results in the whole process starting
over.<br>
> Any suggestions**?<br>
<br>
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<br>
<br>
-- <br>
mostly harmless<br>
jeamy<br>
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