Tips & tricks

All things described in this section are EXPERIMENTAL.

Free name for ISS
You can edit name for ISS (NORAD# 25544). To do this, please add [Tips] section to SETUP.CFG file in Orbitron\Config\ directory, then put line containing: NameFor25544=XXX under it. XXX is ISS name, you want. Default name is ISS but if you want to use one from loaded TLE file, please put these lines to setup.cfg:
    [Tips]
    NameFor25544=


Custom night shadow ratio
Set value of ShadowRatio variable in [Tips] section in SETUP.CFG to customize night shadow ratio. It can be in range from 0 (no shadow) to 10 (absolutely black). Default value is 3.

Secret console
Pressing Ctrl+Shift+~ in Orbitron main window opens 'Secret' console. Please write help command to list available comands.

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