User`s guide

26 Starry Night User’s Guide
If you choose Preferences from the File
menu (Windows) or the Starry Night
menu (Macintosh) and choose
Responsiveness from the dropbox in the
upper left corner of the Preferences dialog
box, you will see a slider and checkbox
named “Pan to found objects”. Adjusting
the slider changes the speed at which
Starry Night pans to found objects.
Unchecking the box disables the panning
feature completely, so that your view
changes instantly to the “found” object as
soon as you double-click on it.
Tip: If you hit the space bar during a pan,
the program immediately takes you
directly to the object. If something catches
your eye and you want to stop the pan,
press the Esc key.
Searching Specific Databases: By default,
Starry Night searches all of its object
databases when you use the Find pane.
If you wish, you can
choose to search in only
a specific database, by
clicking the arrow on
the left side of the textbox in the Find
pane, and choosing the appropriate
database from the menu that appears.
“Object Databases
” on page 79 describes
each of the object databases included in
Starry Night.
Enhanced Find: By default Starry Night
searches for objects whose name begins
with the first letters typed in the text box at
the top of the Find pane. Clicking on the
dropbox that reads “begin with’ opens a
menu with additional search options. You
can customize your search by selecting to
find objects that exactly match, contain or
end with the letters you entered in the text
box.
Solar System Object List: If you clear the
text box at the top of the Find pane, the
list of items found is replaced by a list of
solar system objects.
Click the symbol to the left
of an object’s name to
expand the list to include all other objects
that orbit this object.