Thursday, June 03, 2010

10.5 keyboard shortcuts

Stellarium 0.10.5 has some new features and capabilities. Time to update the keyboard shortcut list (for Windows)... New or changed shortcuts are marked with an asterisk.

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 labels and circles
p
toggle planet orbits

o
*
toggle planet trails

Shift t
*
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)
toggle meridian line

;
*

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
set time rate to zero

7
*
increment forward time speed

l (lower case L)
increment reverse time speed

j
run time at normal speed
k
decrease time speed a little

Shift j

increase time speed a little

Shift 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 1 week

]
jump backward 1 week

[




controlling sidereal time



jump forward 1 sidereal day
Alt = (equal)
jump backward 1 sidereal day
Alt - (hyphen)
jump forward 1 sidereal week
Alt ]
jump backward 1 sidereal week
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 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

show script console window

F12
*
toggle application fullscreen/window
F11
toggle GUI toolbars/menus

Ctrl t
*
save screenshot to desktop file
Ctrl s
quit from Stellarium
Ctrl q

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!

1 comment:

SharminC said...

This is so helpful! Blake, you should start working on a book titled: "Observing made easy"! All you have to do is cut 'n paste from your logs. Thanks for the cheat-sheet!