Handout-07
Activity 02:
Explore celestial objects by basic movements
1. Demonstrate
moving around in stellarium by keyboard cursor keys.( Refer Handout
07)
Step 1: Open stellarium application.
Step 2: Click on help icon (?) or
press F1 key.
Following keys on keyboard and their
role in stellarium application moving around the sky
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Key
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Description
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Cursor keys
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Pan the view left, right, up and down
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Page up / Page down
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Zoom in and out
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Backslash (\)
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Auto-zoom out to original field of view
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Left mouse button
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Select an object in the sky
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Right mouse button
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Clear selected object
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Mouse wheel
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Zoom in and out
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Space
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Centre view on selected object
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Forward-slash (/)
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Auto-zoom in to selected object
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Time Travel
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Button
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Shortcut key
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Description
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j
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Decrease the rate at which time passes
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k
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Make time pass as normal
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l
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Increase the rate at which time passes
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8
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Return to the current time & date
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