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      **  Satellitarium: a satellite tracking program for KDE  **
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                        ** QT3 VERSION **
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Satellitarium is Free Software, released under the GNU General Public License. See COPYING for GPL license information.

1. About Satellitarium

Satellitarium is a graphical application that computes and displays the position of artificial satellites of Earth against a sky background. Beside displaying, Satellitarium is capable of doing searches on various satellite conditions (e.g. visible passes of a satellite).

2. Installation

Instructions for installing Satellitarium are in INSTALL file. Installation is done, basically, by the classic "configure/make/make install" sequence.
In order to compile and run Satellitarium the following libraries must be present:

Qt (tested 3.1.1)
KDE libraries (tested 3.1)
C++ standard library (tested 3.2.2)

When you run Satellitarium for the first time, you probably want to set the observing location. This is done by the "observer location" dialog under the Options menu.
And don't forget to set the timezone for your system or else you will get funny results from Satellitarium (such as having the Sun high in the sky on midnight).

3. Documentation

The Satellitarium user manual is accessible by pressing the F1 key (or accessing the Help->contents menu item).

4. Credits

T.S. Kelso (http://www.celestrak.com/)

        For publishing the "Project spacetrack report #3" document, where the
        SGP/SDP mathematical models for satellite motion are described.

5. Revision history

2003-05-01 0.0 beta1

Initial release

2003-08-03 qt3.0.0 beta1

Initial release for QT3 version