Thursday, December 04, 2008

Stellarium 10 keyboard shortcuts

Here is an updated listing of the extensive keyboard and mouse shortcuts you may use in the Windows version of Stellarium (0.10.0). Some of these are changed from version "9." I've tagged shortcuts that are new or different...

Most quick reference listings (including the one inside Stellarium's help) are improperly designed. They show the key first then the action. You'll see I've done the opposite!

controlling the surroundings
show location dialog
F6
*
toggle cardinal or compass points—— q
toggle ground and buildings

g
toggle ground fog
f
toggle atmosphere or air

a

controlling sky appearance

toggle stars
s
toggle constellation lines
c
toggle constellation boundaries
b
toggle constellation labels
v
toggle constellation artwork
r
toggle planet circles
p
toggle nebula labels and circles
n
show Sky and Viewing Options dialog
F4
*

controlling gridlines

toggle alt/az grid lines
z *
toggle equatorial grid
e
toggle ecliptic line
, (comma) *
toggle celestial equator
. (period) *

changing image presentation

toggle horizontal flipping
Ctrl Shift h
toggle vertical flipping
Ctrl Shift v

controlling "regular" time

show date/time dialog
F5
*
set date/time to match computer

8
increment forward time speed

l (lower case L)
increment reverse time speed

j
run time at normal speed
k
jump forward 1 hour
Ctrl = (equal)
jump backward 1 hour
Ctrl - (hyphen)
jump forward 1 day
= (equal)
jump backward 1 day
- (hyphen)
jump forward 7 days
]
jump backward 7 days
[




controlling sidereal time



jump forward 1 sidereal day
Alt = (equal)
jump backward 1 sidereal day
Alt - (hyphen)
jump forward 7 sidereal days
Alt ]
jump backward 7 sidereal days
Alt [

zooming

quickly zoom in or out

mouse roller up or down

zoom in
PgUp or Ctrl Up Arrow
zoom out
PgDn or Ctrl Dn Arrow
zoom close to selected object
/ (slash)
zoom out fully

\ (backslash)




panning



quickly pan celestial sphere

left-drag

pan right
Right Arrow
pan left
Left Arrow
pan up
Up Arrow
pan down
Dn Arrow
toggle equatorial or alt/az mount
Ctrl m*

working with objects

select an object visually
left-click
centre on selected object
spacebar
toggle tracking of selected object
t
deselect the object
right-click
display search dialog box
Ctrl f or F3
*
travel to object, i.e. go to a planet
Ctrl g

controlling the application

show configuration dialog
F2
*
show help/about dialog
F1
*
toggle application fullscreen/window
F11 *
save screenshot to desktop file
Ctrl s
quit from Stellarium
Ctrl q

There may be more shortcuts. And of course more may added during the beta testing...

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