[Kde-science] Astronomers needed (Was: Re: Some wiki pages)

[Stuart Jarvis]

On Wednesday 08 September 2010 00:25:00 Akarsh Simha wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I contribute to KStars. At the moment, I think KStars is not as
> astronomer-friendly as it could possibly be. It works great for
> astronomy education and for amateur astronomers like me, but I am
> unable to think of the needs of professional astronomers. Are there
> any on this group?

I may know some people who know some (I know some people in astrophysics 
departments). Do you know if KStars is in the Windows ports and if so is it in 
a reasonable state? (They'd probably be more likely to try that than a Live CD 
or Linux install)

Cheers,
Stu

> Professional astronomers require a lot of software, but then, they
> mostly use very specific software that are rather hard to operate /
> don't have good user interfaces. I wonder what aspects of these could
> be incorporated into KStars. I'd appreciate any suggestions.
> 
> Regards
> Akarsh
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