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- Mouse and Keyboard Controls for Celestia
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- Mouse Functions:
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- Left drag to orient camera
- Right drag to orbit the selected object
- Use the mouse wheel to adjust distance to selection
- (for wheelless mice, dragging while holding left and right
- buttons or left dragfing while holding control to dolly camera
- will adjust distance)
- Left drag while holding shift to zoom
- Click the wheel to reset the field of view to 45 degrees
- Left-click to select; double click to center selection
- Right-click to bring up context menu
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- Keyboard Commands
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- Navigation:
- H : Select the sun (Home)
- C : Center on selected object
- G : Goto selected object
- F : Follow selected object
- Y : Orbit the selected object at a rate synced to its rotation
- T : Track selected object (keep selected object centered in view)
- HOME : Move closer to object
- END : Move farther from object
- ESC : Cancel motion or script
- Left/Right Arrows : Roll Camera
- Up / Down Arrows : Change Camera Pitch
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- Time:
- Space : stop time
- L : Time 10x faster
- K : Time 10x slower
- J : Reverse time
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- Labels:
- N : Toggle planet and moon labels
- B : Toggle star labels
- E : Toggle galaxy labels
- = : Toggle constellation labels
- V : Toggle info text
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- Options:
- U : Toggle galaxy rendering
- O : Toggle planet orbits
- / : Toggle constellation diagrams
- Ctrl+A : Toggle atmospheres
- I : Toggle cloud textures
- Ctrl+L : Toggle night side planet maps (light pollution)
- Ctrl+E : Toggle eclipse shadow rendering
- Ctrl+S : Toggle rendering stars as points (otherwise, they're textures)
- ; : Show an earth-based equatorial coordinate sphere
- [ : Decrease limiting magnitude (fewer stars visible)
- ] : Increase limiting magnitude (more stars visible)
- { : Decrease ambient illumination
- } : Increase ambient illumination
- , : Narrow field of view
- . : Widen field of view
- W : Toggle wireframe mode
- Ctrl+P : Toggle per-pixel lighting (if supported)
- Ctrl+V : Toggle vertex programs (if supported)
- r R: lower or raise texture resolution
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- Spaceflight:
- F1 : Stop
- F2 : Set velocity to 1 km/s
- F3 : Set velocity to 1,000 km/s
- F4 : Set velocity to speed of light
- F5 : Set velocity to 10x the speed of light.
- F6 : Set velocity to 1 AU/s
- F7 : Set velocity to 1 ly/s
- A : Increase velocity
- Z : Decrease velocity
- Q : Reverse direction
- X : Set movement direction toward center of screen
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- Number pad:
- 4 : Yaw left
- 6 : Yaw right
- 8 : Pitch down
- 2 : Pitch up
- 7 : Roll left
- 9 : Roll right
- 5 : Stop rotation
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- Joystick:
- X axis : yaw
- Y axis : pitch
- L trigger : roll left
- R trigger : roll right
- Button 1 : slower
- Button 2 : faster
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- Other:
- D : Run demo
- F8 : Enable joystick
- F10 : Capture image to file
- ` : Show frames rendered per second
- ENTER : Select a star or planet by typing its name
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