<chapter id="commands">
<title>Command Reference</title>

<sect1 id="kstars-menus">
<title>Menu Commands</title>

<sect2>
<title>File Menu</title>
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>q</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Quit</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Quits &kstars;</action>
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Time Menu</title>
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Time</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Set Time to Now</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Sync time to system clock</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>s</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>Time</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Set Time...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Choose time and date</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Time</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Start/Stop Clock</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Toggle whether time passes</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Location Menu</title>
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Location</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Zenith</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Center at the Zenith point
(straight up)</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>f</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>Location</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Find Object</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Locate an object by name</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>t</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>Location</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Track Object</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Stay centered on current
 position</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut>
<keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>g</keycap></keycombo>
</shortcut>
<guimenu>Location</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Geographic...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Select a new geographic
 location</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>View Menu</title>
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>View</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Zoom in</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Zooms view in</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>View</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Zoom out</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Zooms view out</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>View</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Configure &kstars;...</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Change view options</action></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Help Menu</title>
<para>
A standard KDE help menu: you can access this document (the
&kstars; Handbook), file a bug report, or view our About Box.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Popup Menu</title>
<para>
The right-click popup menu is context-sensitive, meaning it is
different depending on what kind of object you click on.  We list all
possible popup menu items here, with the object type [in brackets].
</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>[All]</term>
<listitem><para>
Identification and type:  The top three lines are devoted to the
name(s) of the object, and its type.  For stars, the Spectral Type
is also shown here.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>[All]</term>
<listitem><para>
<guimenuitem>Center and Track</guimenuitem>: Center the display
on this location, and engage tracking.  Equivalent to double-clicking.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>[All except Solar System]</term>
<listitem><para>
<guimenuitem>Show 1st/2nd Gen DSS Image</guimenuitem>:
The Digitized Sky Survey is an incredible resource: a photographic
atlas of the entire sky.  Through the miracle of the internet, you can
download a photograph of any patch of sky.  &kstars; provides one-click
access to this database.  There are two generations of the Survey; the
second generation is not yet complete, so you may get an error when
requesting a <quote>2nd Gen DSS</quote> image.  Note that the image
files are large, and may not be very aesthetic.  If other images are
available for your object, you should try them first.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>[Messier, Solar System]</term>
<listitem><para>
<guimenuitem>Show SEDS Information
Page</guimenuitem>: The Students For the Exploration and Development
of Space have a <ulink url="http://www.seds.org">wonderful
website</ulink>, which includes very extensive information on the
Solar System and on Messier objects.  &kstars; provides links to these
pages in the popup menu.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>[Messier]</term>
<listitem><para>
<guimenuitem>Show SEDS Image</guimenuitem>: The main image
of this Messier object from the SEDS.org information page.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>[Some Deep-Sky objects]</term>
<listitem><para>
<guimenuitem>Show HST Image</guimenuitem>:
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope periodically publish
beautiful images from the HST as press releases.  Some of these are pretty
famous, and have become cultural icons.  You can access them all through
&kstars;.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>[Some Deep-Sky objects]</term>
<listitem><para>
<guimenuitem>Show KPNO AOP
Image</guimenuitem>: The Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona has
a public outreach program called the <ulink
url="http://www.noao.edu/outreach/nop/advanced/advanced.html">Advanced
Observing Program</ulink>, which allows anyone to <quote>rent</quote>
a 16-inch telescope located on Kitt Peak for a night.  This program
has been producing some of the finest amateur astronomy images ever
taken, and we include over 100 of them in our database of links.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>[All Named Objects]</term>
<listitem><para>
<guimenuitem>Add Link...</guimenuitem>: This allows you to add your own custom
links to the popup menu of any object.  It opens a small window in which you
enter the <abbrev>URL</abbrev> of the link, and the text you want to appear in
the popup menu.  There is also a pair of radio buttons which allow you to
specify whether the <abbrev>URL</abbrev> is an image or an <abbrev>HTML</abbrev>
document, so &kstars; knows whether to launch the web browser or the image
viewer.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</sect2>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="kstars-keys">
<title>Keyboard Commands</title>
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>Arrow Keys</term>
<listitem><para>
Use the arrow keys to pan the display.  Holding down the <keycap>Shift</keycap>
key doubles the scrolling speed.
</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><keycap>+</keycap> / <keycap>-</keycap></term>
<listitem><para>Zoom In/Out</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term>0&ndash;9</term>
<listitem><para>Center Display on a Solar System object.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>0: Sun</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>1: Mercury</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>2: Venus</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>3: Moon</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>4: Mars</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>5: Jupiter</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>6: Saturn</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>7: Uranus</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>8: Neptune</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>9: Pluto</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><keycap>Z</keycap></term>
<listitem><para>Center on the Zenith Point (straight
 up).</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><keycap>N</keycap></term>
<listitem><para>Center above North horizon.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><keycap>E</keycap></term>
<listitem><para>Center above East horizon.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><keycap>S</keycap></term>
<listitem><para>Center above South horizon.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><keycap>W</keycap></term>
<listitem><para>Center above West horizon.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><keycap>F1</keycap></term>
<listitem><para>Open &kstars; Handbook.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>f</keycap></keycombo>
</term>
<listitem><para>Open Find Object Window.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>g</keycap></keycombo>
</term>
<listitem><para>Open Change Location Window.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>s</keycap></keycombo>
</term>
<listitem><para>Open Set Time Window.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>t</keycap></keycombo>
</term>
<listitem><para>Toggle tracking.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>q</keycap></keycombo>
</term>
<listitem><para>Quit &kstars;.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist>
</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="kstars-mouse">
<title>Mouse Commands</title>
<para>
The current RA, Dec coordinates of the mouse cursor is always
displayed in the status bar.  Clicking the Mouse anywhere will
identify the nearest object in the status bar.  Double-clicking will
center and track on the clicked location or object.  Click and drag
to pan the display.  Right-click to bring up the popup menu
with detailed options for the clicked object.
</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>