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NightSky

It's on this issues CD, here's the full manual

Copyright © APDL and John Banks 2005

All rights reserved. This program is licensed for use on a single computer by a single user.

This version is supplied for the use of RISC World subscribers only.

Published by -
          APDL
          39 Knighton Park Road
          Sydenham
          London SE26 5RN
          Phone : 020 8778 2659
          Fax : 020 8488 0487
          E-mail : info@apdl.co.uk

• About NightSky
  
  • Conventions used in this guide
    
  • Animations.
    
• 1. Tutorial
  
  • Introduction
    
  • Loading the Program
    
  • Plotting a Map
    
  • Basic Map Operations
    
  • SELECT-drag
    
  • ADJUST
    
  • Home
    
  • MENU
    
  • Keyboard Short-cuts
    
  • F5 to F8 and Shift-F5 to Shift-FS
    
  • Demonstration animations
    
  • Demos.Monthbymth
    
  • Northern1
    
  • Northern2
    
  • Southern1 and Southern2
    
  • EquatN and EquatS
    
  • Demos.TotalSolar
    
  • Falmouth99, Manchr99 and Wien99
    
  • Demos.Annular
    
  • Demos.Lunar
    
  • Demos.Partial
    
  • Demos.Precess
    
  • UrsaMa
    
  • Occn/Trans
    
  • Demos.Planets
    
• 2. The Desktop
  
  • The Program Icon
    
  • The Palette Icon
    
  • Interactive Help
    
  • Iconised ('minimized') windows
    
  • High resolution icons
    
  • The Territory Manager
    
• 3.The Menus
  
  • 3.1 The Icon Bar Menu
    
  • Info
    
  • Places
    
  • Places -> Save places
    
  • Places -> Create new file
    
  • Places -> Show places
    
  • Adding a new record
    
  • Precession...
    
  • Occultations...
    
  • Technical Note
    
  • Quit
    
  • 3.2. The Draw a Map Menu
    
  • Here: NOW
    
  • Here:then
    
  • There: NOW and There: then
    
  • Options...
    
  • The Map Window
    
  • Mouse clicks in the Map Window
    
  • The Tagtext File
    
  • Editing the password
    
  • 3.3 The Map Menu
    
  • Save map
    
  • Automatic saving
    
  • Print ->
    
  • Moon
    
  • Planets ->
    
  • Info
    
  • Plot RA/dec and Plot Altaz
    
  • Find (F4)
    
  • The Information Windows
    
  • The Star Information Window
    
  • RealTime (F9)
    
  • Refresh every ->
    
  • Step ->
    
  • Wipe old map
    
  • Lock onto ->
    
  • Lock onto Earth's Shadow
    
  • Restricted ->
    
  • Starting RealTime mode
    
  • Time Flow
    
  • Zoom ->
    
  • Label ->
    
  • Map Title ->
    
  • New Map ->
    
  • Additional Note
    
• 4. The Options Window
  
  • OK
    
  • Cancel
    
  • Save
    
  • Default settings
    
  • Use now
    
  • Files Loaded
    
  • Precess to Year
    
  • Map plotting
    
  • Map plotting action
    
  • Map saving
    
  • The Moon
    
  • Constellations
    
  • Co-ordinate Grid
    
  • Auto-labelling
    
  • Star IDs
    
  • Fonts
    
  • The other labels
    
  • Colours
    
  • Using the Colour Tool
    
  • Notes on particular colours
    
  • System font only onscreen
    
• 5. Keyboard shortcuts
  
  • Keyboard shortcuts