User`s guide

Bending Space & Time 105
Preferences from the File menu
(Windows) or the Starry Night menu
(Macintosh), selecting Responsiveness
from the dropbox in this dialog box, and
unchecking the option “Animate changes
in location”. You can also change the
speed of animated location changes by
adjusting this slider. Finally, you can
choose to animate only location changes
where you move between planets. The
next section describes how to change your
viewing location to another planet.
Viewing From Other Planets: To view
from another planet or moon, open the
Viewing Location window and click the
List tab. Near the top of this window is a
dropbox that reads “Earth”. You can open
this dropbox and select any of the other
celestial bodies in this list.
Once you have selected a new body (for
example, Mars), the three tabs in the
Viewing Location window behave the
same as before, but in relation to your new
body. The List tab will have a list of
craters, volcanoes and other prominent
features on Mars, the Map tab will show a
surface map of Mars, and the
Latitude/Longitude tab will allow you to
type in a new latitude and longitude on the
surface of Mars.
Click Set Location when you are finished
selecting your new location. Starry Night
will fly you off the surface of Earth, travel
through the solar system, and set you
down gently on the surface of your chosen
planet.
Tip: The list of locations for the Moon
includes not only craters and other
prominent gelogical features, but also the
sites of all the Apollo landings!
Viewing From Stars or Galaxies: You can
also view the sky from nearby stars with
Starry Night, but you can’t do this from
the Viewing Location window. See “Go
There” on page 88 for information on
visiting other stars and galaxies.
Returning Home: To return to your home
location at any time, press the “Home”
button on the tool bar, or choose Options
from the main menu and click on the name
of your home city in this menu.
You will see
two options:
one with
“Reset” in the name, and one without.
Choosing the “Reset” option will also
restore all settings to their default values,
while choosing the other option will return
you to your home location but leave all
other settings unchanged.