Distro Astro Changelog

What's new in Distro Astro 3.0

• Location-aware Astronomy:
• Astronomers move from place to place. They travel to witness astronomical phenomena, conduct an outreach program in a faraway place, or simply journey in search of darker skies. In any case, every astronomical app opened would need to have its settings updated to their new location.
• Distro Astro takes care of this for them. Distro Astro keeps track of the user's changing location via GeoIP or GPS, and keeps astronomy programs updated as well. Of course, users can turn it off or even set the location manually, but in most cases you can just let it work in the background and forget about it.
• Astrophotography Support:
• Astrophotography has long been one of Linux's weak points, but not anymore. Ekos is a wonderful Linux-based tool that provides autoguiding, autofocus, polar alignment, video capture, and filter wheel support. It is integrated into KStars, a full-featured planetarium software. The INDI library provides driver support for astronomy hardware, and Astrometry.net analyzes your images. Working together, KEIA (short for KStars, Ekos, INDI, and Astrometry.net) is a tightly-integrated solution that will turn your computer into an astrophotography tool.
• One Million Deep Sky Objects:
• The Master Optical List is a huge database of over a million deep sky objects, that it is sometimes called the Million Object List. It integrates all the existing catalogs and sorts out the duplicates into a single master list. This database is now built into Distro Astro and integrated into Cartes du Ciel, and makes it easier for users to query information about any known DSO.