@Avera9eJoe
Kudos on your work in this, I discovered the mod via FB just today, and uninstalled Astronomers to give it a go.
I'm doing it all through CKAN and can report that all went well (after reverting to 1.7.1 cos Kopernicus). All dependencies seemed to work out OK!
I really like the shading/colours, they are much more subtle.
There is one thing I can't seem to find, maybe I'm just needing to tweak something, and that's cloud shadows on Kerbin. Or is it just a case on a one liner change in a config file?
Anyway, good work and I came on here to say so, I don't post very often as you can see!