SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Move to a big city 2. Use opensource only in yourlife 3. Love KDE projects 4. Found out about excellent kstars 5. explore your sky 6. look for that bright object in the sky OBSERVED RESULT - I cannot find it ... - if i disabled stars, its all black - if i enable stars, there are way too many EXPECTED RESULT - I wish there was an option to only show what is visible to the human eye. - I am not sure if that data is accessible. but sure would be great. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu 20.04 / Plasma KDE Plasma Version: 5.18 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68 Qt Version: 5.12.8
You can go to Settings --> Configure KStars --> Catalogs and adjust the slider for stars.