---
name: "stars"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "stars"
version: "0.12+1-1"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/stars"
---

# stars(1)

program to draw a map of the night time sky

## NAME

stars — program to draw a map of the night time sky

## DESCRIPTION

**stars** should be fairly self  explanatory.  This is a program to display a map of the night  sky. It is written purely in C and uses GTK+ widgets along with  Gdk-Pixbuf. It uses Glade for the interface design. Except for  generating a small rotation matrix and some parameters, all math  is integer based, allowing very fast display. At 16 bytes of  memory per object, many objects can be loaded at once. Most graphics are  antialiased. Currently this program contains data for:

329321 stars(yale bright stars and the ACRS catalog) \[points\]   23011 galaxies(rc3 catalog) \[yellow ellipses\]   about 10000 galaxy clusters(Abell and Zwicky catalogs) \[light blue circles\]   1151 galactic open clusters(Lund catalog) \[grey circles\]   160 galactic globular clusters(Monela et al) \[blue crossed circles\]   Constellation boundaries(IAU 1873 standard) \[green lines\]   Constellations \[purple lines\]   Equatorial coordinate grid(15 min of RA by 5 deg of dec) \[red grid\]   Princeton Pulsar Catalog \[blue dots\]   Galactic and Ecliptic coordinate grids   Planetary Nebula \[green circles with points\]

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Brian R Furry \<bfurry@nac.net\>; for  the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU Free Documentation  License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free  Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover  Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.