User`s guide

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Magnification tool see Field of view
Magnifying objects 27
Magnitude 94
absolute 94
MaxIm DL Plug-in 186
Meade LX200 alignment stars 84
Mean anomaly 165
Mean distance 165
Meridian 167
Meridian, local 57
Messier objects 82
display options 49
Meteor showers 80, 84
Milky Way
adjusting brightness 50
Moon
age 96
cast shadows 45
enlarging 90
phases 96, 196
Moons
graphing elongation of 121
other planets 81
Movies
compressing 153
controls for making 152
making 151
playing back your own 153
Multiple windows
opening 149
synchronizing time between 149
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Nadir 22
Nebula Outlines 185
Netscape 194
NGC-IC catalogue 82
bright objects 82
display options 49
finest objects 84
Night vision mode 143
Number format preferences 64
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Objects
adding 162
adding log entries 162
contextual menu 88
displaying paths 102
finding 25
identifying 24
locking on 88
magnifying 27, 88
modfiying images 175
panning to 25
rise/transit/set times 92
selecting 88
text descriptions 92
turning labels on/off 39
turning on/off 38
Observation lists 124
OpenGL
compatibility issues 191
options 63
Options pane, layers 34
Orbit Editor 162
adding surface images 166
Orbital elements 163
NASA two-line 165
near-circular 165
pericentric 163
reference plane 166
Orbits
adjusting brightness 111
changing colours 111
displaying 110
markers 111
Orientation, changing 109
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Pane 20