winget install --id KDE.KStarsAbout KStars Desktop Planetarium
KStars is freely licensed, open source, cross-platform Astronomy Software by KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes up to 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets, asteroids, supernovae, and satellites. For students and teachers, it supports adjustable simulation speeds in order to view phenomena that happen over long timescales, the KStars Astrocalculator to...
What's new in 3.8.2
KStars v3.8.2 is released on 2026.04.08 for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. For Linux users, it's highly recommended to use the official KStars Flatpak hosted at Flathub. This release brings reliability improvements across the scheduler, live stacking, polar alignment, along with new features like passive camera warming, a startup queue failure popup, and preliminary automatic polar alignment correction. Here are some highlights: Scheduler & Observatory Automation - Fixed Ekos not shutting down after preemptive shutdown; task executor no longer stalls when a park command is issued - New startup queue failure popup with state reset for clean retries - Scheduler restart from error state now always resets startup to IDLE - Fixed crashes caused by improper use of QSharedPointer; simulator-based regression tests expanded - Added ability to wait indefinitely for weather to improve - Profiles now synced from INDI Web Manager on startup; deleting a profile in KStars removes it from the manager - Fixed checkINDIState returning incorrect value when transitioning to STARTUP_POST_DEVICES - Added Optical Trains DBus interface for scripted access to train configuration Polar Alignment - Preliminary support for Automatic Polar Alignment Correction via the INDI Polar Alignment Corrector interface. INDI Polar Alignment Drivers include Avalon UPAS (not tested) and MLAstro Robotic Polar Alignment (not released yet) - Fixed overwrap calculation error producing erroneous correction vectors - Multisetup PA sync workaround contributed by Philip Mair Live Stacking - Added mutex locking on LiveStack ima...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 3.8.2 | Unknown | KStars v3.8.2 is released on 2026.04.08 for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. For Linux users, it's highly recommended to use the official KStars Flatpak hosted at Flathub. This release brings reliability improvements across th... |
| 3.8.1 | Unknown | KStars v3.8.1 is released on 2026.02.092 for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. For Linux users, it's highly recommended to use the official KStars Flatpak hosted at Flathub. You can install the stable flatpak or try out new fea... |
| 3.8.0 | Unknown | KStars v3.8.0 is released on 2025.12.03 for Windows & Linux. MacOS release is expected in one week due to build issue on KDE CI infrastructure. For Linux users, it's highly recommended to use the official KStars Flatpak... |
| 3.7.9 | Unknown | KStars v3.7.8 is released on 2025.08.13 for Windows & Linux. MacOS release is pending. It's a bi-monthly bug-fix release with a couple of exciting features. Live Stacking The moment many of you have been waiting for has... |
| 3.7.8 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 3.7.7 | Unknown | KStars v3.7.6 is released on 2025.04.01 for Windows, MacOS & Linux. It's a bi-monthly bug-fix release with a couple of exciting features. Scheduler Plans Visualized Hy Murveit added a graph to the Scheduler page that dis... |
| 3.7.6 | Unknown | KStars v3.7.6 is released on 2025.04.01 for Windows, MacOS & Linux. It's a bi-monthly bug-fix release with a couple of exciting features. Scheduler Plans Visualized Hy Murveit added a graph to the Scheduler page that dis... |
| 3.7.5 | Unknown | KStars v3.7.5 is released on 2025.02.03 for Windows, MacOS & Linux. It's a bi-monthly bug-fix release with a couple of exciting features. Here are the release notes organized by developer. Jasem Mutlaq - Added dome slit... |