[Kstars-devel] I'd like to help...

[Jason Harris]

Hi Chris!

Sorry I took so long to reply.  Welcome, we'd be really glad to have your 
help.  I guess you've seen my news item about starting a Data Team here:
http://edu.kde.org/kstars/news.php#itemJointheKStarsDataTeam

The Data Team is active, but has not been very vocal, so you might not know 
it.  We had someone who was working on adding more star names last year, but 
we never got the finished product from him (I should ping him to see what the 
status is).  Our deep-sky database could use some improvements as well (i.e., 
fill in missing sizes and magnitudes).  As Mike said, we've also had interest 
in adding contour lines for some of the larger deep-sky objects.  

On another front, there is a library for calculating earth-satellite tracks:
http://predictsatlib.sourceforge.net

We're interested in adding this capability to KStars.  This will require some 
coding, but we also need to determine sources for the satellite orbital data, 
which is just a web search (probably a NASA/JPL page somewhere).

These are just some things going on.  Do you have a particular idea or data 
set that you are interested in?

thanks,
Jason

On Tuesday 27 June 2006 13:10, Christopher Kraft wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   My name is Chris Kraft. I live in Tucson Arizona. I would like to help
> the KStars development effort. I am a programmer but I would like to join
> the Data Team. I'm not sure how much time I can dedicate to the project but
> I would like to help any way I can.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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