User`s guide

116 Starry Night User’s Guide
Event Finder
The Event Finder is a powerful search
engine that finds astronomical events
visible tonight and far into the future. The
finder dynamically generates a listing of
moon phases, eclipses, Jupiter satellite
events, meteor showers and planetary
phenomenon such as conjunctions,
elongations and oppositions to name but a
few of the events that can be displayed. It
even creates a handy monthly calendar of
events.
You open the Event Finder by
clicking the Events side pane.
The pane is divided into three layers -
Events Browser, Event Info and Event
Filters.
Searching Events: The Start Date and
End Date controls in the “Events
Browser” layer allow you to enter a start
and end search date for astronomical
events. When the desired date range is
selected, press the Find Events button to
dynamically generate a list of events.
Note: By default the “Events Browser”
layer shows a list of events for one month
from the current date.
The “Show” dropbox allows you to filter
events. All Events is selected by default
and lists all events, including those not
visible from your current location. Visible
Above Horizon displays only those events
that are visible from your current location.
Visible During Darkness lists events
visible from your current location and
suppresses events that are only visible
during daylight.
Note: Creating a list of events for a long
date range requires a greater amount of
time to calculate. For faster searches limit
the date range to a few months. Knowing
what specific objects you are interested in
will also speed up searches. See “Filtering