About Window
- The About Window shows information about the current version of The Digital Universe
and online contact details.
Environment Settings Window
- This "Environment Parameters" window allows you to select your
location on Earth, the time zone you are in, and which user-definable
horizon (if any) that you want the software to render. You can choose
from a list of over 1000 cities, or enter your latitude, longitude,
and altitude directly into the boxes provided. In addition, for
accurate calculations of refraction, you are able to specify the current
temperature and atmospheric pressure.
Display Window - tab 1
- This image shows the "Calculation & Display" section of the "Display
Preferences" window. It allows you to configure which types of objects
you wish the software to consider in generating its display.
Display Window - tab 2
- This shows the "Object Preferences" section of the "Display Preferences"
window. It allows you to configure how you want the various objects to
appear on the screen.
Display Window - tab 3
- This "Limiting Magnitudes" section of the "Display Preferences" window
allows you to independently adjust the apparent brightness of stars & planets,
deep sky objects, and miscellaneous objects.
Control Panel Window
- The "Control Panel" window allows you to perform many operations
by simply clicking on an icon.
Time Settings window
- The "Set Time" window allows you to
specify the time used by the software in generating a view of the sky.
You can enter the time in any of ten different standard formats.
Time Advance window
- The "Time Advance" window allows you
to specify the criteria of time advancement. You can configure the software
to increment time by a user-definable amount automatically or manually,
as well as tell the software what it should be locking onto between each
time step. From version 1.7 it is also to use Real Time mode to automatically set DU to the Current Time.
Miscellaneous Objects Window
- This image shows the "Miscellaneous Objects" selection window, allowing
you to specify which comets, asteroids, or Earth-orbiting satellites that
the software should consider when generating a view of the sky.
Search Stars and Search Planets Windows
- It is possible to search for specific items, this snapshot shows the
window to look for planets/moons and the window to search for specific
stars. The Star Search allows several different methods of specifying the
item to look for.
Search Misc. Objects and Search Deep Sky Objects Windows
- It is possible to search for specific items, this snapshot shows the
window to look for asteroids and earth orbiting satellites and the window
to search for deep sky objects. The Deep Sky Search allows several different
methods of specifying the item to look for.
Report Generation Window
- User-definable reports of numerical values may be generated and saved
to disk or printed. This window allows you to customize such a report.
Object Information Window
- When you click on any object with The Digital Universe, you are
presented with a window containing information about the object. Here is
a small portion of the information available for the star Betelgeuse.
More Info - Amiga Guide
- For many objects, information is also available in the form of multimedia
hypertext (more than 210,000 words of hypertext are provided with the package).
This window contains the links to the hypertext documents available about the
Sun. If you are unable to find the information you require by following
normal links, The Digital Universe also allows you to search through
all the hypertext for keywords.
Astro Intro - Amiga Guide
- For those individuals who are interested in astronomy but wish to
learn more, a comprehensive introduction to astronomy is provided with
the package, in hypertext form. This window shows links to the various
chapters provided in the introduction.
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