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Interested in KStars? Found KStars useful? Come by our mailing list and share your suggestions, and tell us what you liked / what you did not like. Any feedback and help will be appreciated.

If you know how to program, you're welcome to join our developer team! Get started by building KStars from source. The community wiki also provides resource about setting up your development environment. Most developer discussion happens on our mailing list or issue tracker, so if you need help, that's a good place to ask. KStars is written in C++ using Qt and KDE libraries.

If you are an astronomy enthusiast, there is our AstroInfo project.

Some pointers to get started

Not a Programmer?

Not a problem! There are plenty of other tasks that you can help us with to make KStars better even if you don't know any programming languages!