Bug 423592

Summary: KStars should allow adding custom URLs for Satellites
Product: [Applications] kstars Reporter: Alex Fliker <alex.kdebugzilla>
Component: generalAssignee: Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal CC: alex.kdebugzilla
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 3.4.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alex Fliker 2020-06-27 16:05:37 UTC
This feature in Stellarium is very helpful, would be cool to get it in KStars as well!
Comment 1 Alex Fliker 2020-06-27 16:43:35 UTC
Oh, I found it in the docs! Quote:

"You can add new satellites to KStars default satellites set by editing the kstars/data/satellites.dat file. As each line of this file is a group of satellites, you need to add a new entry for your desired satellites group. An entry should have the following format: Group Name;local_filename;url. For example: Iridium;iridium.tle;http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/iridium.txt."

Tested it - works as expected. But the path was without the data subfolder (caused by difference between kstars and kstars-bleeding packages maybe?)

You can close this ticket probably, though might be worth to leave it and maybe think about implementing it in UI, like in Stellarium.