WinStars 3
  • Introduction
  • Installation
  • Installing on Linux
  • Getting Started
  • Menu system
  • Presentation
  • Planetarium mode
  • 3D navigation mode
  • Lock an object
  • Time and date setting
  • Adjusting geographical coordinates
  • Settings box
  • Constellations
  • Stars
  • Deep sky
  • Coordinates
  • Milky Way
  • Landscapes
  • Planetarium parameters
  • Planets
  • Satellites
  • Asteroides
  • Comètes
  • Star catalogues
  • Galaxies catalogue
  • Video mode
  • 3D parameters
  • Colors
  • Display options
  • Search for an object
  • Modules
  • DSS function
  • Telescopes
  • Eyepieces
  • Animations
  • Send a bug report
  • Maintenance
  • Ephemeris
  • Rises & sets
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Menu system¶

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Menu system on Android

Icons provide easy access to the various WinStars options and functions. The most important icons are indicated in red:
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Open a configuration file.


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Save a configuration file.


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Settings time and date of the observation.


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Rotates the camera direction to the left.


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Rotates the camera direction to the right.


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Rotates the camera direction downwards.


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Rotates the camera direction upwards.

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In the planetarium mode, zoom in.


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In the planetarium mode, zoom out.


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In the planetarium mode, sets the camera’s zoom value to 1x.


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In the planetarium mode, look towards North.


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In the planetarium mode, look towards East.


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In the planetarium mode, look towards South.


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In the planetarium mode, look towards West.


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Performs a double left-right and top-down inversion. The images produced by WinStars then conform to the images that can be obtained behind the eyepiece of a telescope.


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Enables or disables the orientation of the camera according to the orientation of its mobile phone. To make this function available, it is necessary that your device has a magnetometer and an accelerometer. Please provide the technical data of your device.


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Displays the dialog box presentation.


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This dialog box gives access to all the program settings.


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Reminds you of the use of menu icons.


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Clicking on this icon changes the representation of the constellations. Displays successively “star patterns”, constellations boundaries and constellations mythological figures.


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Show/hide constellation names.


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Show/hide star names.


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Show/hide planet names.


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Show/hide deep sky object names (nebulae, galaxies, clusters etc.).


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Show/hide the names of selected objects in the dialog box Comètes.


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Show/hide the names of selected objects in the dialog box Asteroides.


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In the planetarium mode, activates or deactivates the display of a starless sky when it is daylight.


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In the planetarium mode, activates or deactivates the display of a landscape.


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In the planetarium mode, activates or deactivates the display of a cloudy sky.


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Enables or disables the display of azimutal and equatorial coordinate grids.


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In the 3D navigation mode, activates or deactivates the display of the planets’ orbits.


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Provides access to the box settings animations.


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Decrease the rate at which time passes (2x).


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Make time pass as normal.


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Synchronizes the time and date of WinStars with the system clock.


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Increase the rate at which time passes (2x).


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In the planetarium mode, allows you to point in a given direction.


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Dialog box eyepieces.


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In the planetarium mode, allows to calculate the significant events visible from the observation place.


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Find an object.


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In the planetarium mode, displays the digitized sky DSS.


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Switches between the modes navigation 3D and planetarium.


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Enable or disable the red display (night mode).


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