| Number pad (with Num Lock turned on)
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| 7 | 8 | 9
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Roll ship
counterclockwise
(makes everything on the
screen roll clockwise
| moves camera downward
(pitch down)
Roll ship clockwise
(makes everything
on the screen roll
counterclockwise)
| | 4 | 5 | 6
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Moves camera left
(yaw left)
| Stops camera drifting
(stop rotation)
| Moves camera right
(yaw right)
| | 1 | 2 | 3
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| Nothing?
| moves camera upward
(pitch up)
| Nothing?
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| Motion (spaceflight)
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| A | Increase velocity | S | Stop | Z | Decrease velocity
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| Q | Reverse direction | | | X | Set movement
direction toward
center of screen
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| F1 | Stop | F2 | Set velocity to 1 km/s
| F3 | Set velocity to 1,000 km/s
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| F4 | Set velocity to speed of light
| F5 | Set velocity to 10x the speed of light.
| F6 | Set velocity to 1 AU/s
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| | F7 | Set velocity to 1 ly/s
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| Object labels |
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| W | Asteroids & comets | B | Stars
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| M | Moons | N | Spacecraft
| & | Locations
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| | E | Galaxies
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Constellations
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| = | Toggle constellation labels
| / | Toggle constellation diagrams
| Ctrl+B | Toggle constellation boundaries
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Planets
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| P | Toggle planet labels
| O | Toggle planet orbits | ; | Show an earth-based equatorial coordinate sphere
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Markers
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| Ctrl+P | Mark selected object | Ctrl+K | Toggle display of markers
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| Time
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| L | Time 10x faster
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| K | Time 10x slower
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| J | Reverse time
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| \ | Real time rate
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| Space | Stop and unstop time
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| ! | Set time to now
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| Other
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| F10 | Capture image to file
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| Ctrl+C, Ctrl+INS | Copy location URL to clipboard
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| D | Run demo
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| F8 | Enable joystick
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| Ctrl+V | Cycle between supported OpenGL render paths
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| Informational commands
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| V | Toggle verbosity of info text
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| ? | Display light-travel delay between observer and selected object
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| ` | Show frames rendered per second
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| Multiview
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| Ctrl+R | Split view vertically
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| Ctrl+U | Split view horizontally
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| TAB | Cycle active view
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| DEL | Delete active view
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| Ctrl+D | Delete all views except active one |
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| Mouse functions
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| Left drag | Orient camera.
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| Right drag | "Orbits" the selected object - allows you to kind of roll it around the screen
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| Wheel,
Right + Left drag, or
Ctrl + Left drag | adjust distance to selection
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| Shift + Left drag | change field of view (e.g. => telescopic view)
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| Wheel (middle button) click | toggle field of view between 45 degrees and the previous field (e.g. telescopic view)
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| Left-click | select object
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| Left double click | center selection
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| Right-click | bring up context menu
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| View and navigational
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| Enter | Bring up a prompt so you can type in the name of an object to select.
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| Backspace | Cancel currently selected object. If the currently selected object orbits another object, the orbited object will be selected.
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| H | Select Sol
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| G | Go to selected object
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| C | Center view on selected object
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| F | Follow selected object
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| Y | Orbit the selected object at a rate synced to its rotation
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| " | Chase selected object (orientation is based on selection's velocity)
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| : | Lock on selected object
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| T | Track selected object (keep selected object centered in view)
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| Shift+Arrows | Orbit object
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| ESC | Cancel motion (including G, go), or script. Cancels tracking, following or sync orbiting of objects.
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| HOME | Move closer to object you have selected; the quickest, most no-nonsense way to get to something.
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| END | Opposite of HOME; moves farther from selected object
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| 1-9 | Select planets around nearby sun
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| Shift+C | Center/orbit--center the selected object without changing the position of the reference object. A very neat way to move around and shift your view of things - I'm not quite sure how it works, but it seems like you might have to be sync orbiting, following, or chasing an object, or have a lock on on object or pair of objects.
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| * | Switch to rear view when pressed the first time, and and back again when pressed the second time. Not recommended unless you switch back right away, since the camera will no longer be facing in the direction you're moving in, which could be confusing.
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| Important commands for realism
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| - | Subtract light-travel delay from current simulation time
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| + | Switch between artistic and limit of knowledge planet textures
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| r | Lower texture resolution
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| R | Raise texture resolution
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| Ctrl-A | Toggles atmospheres on or off, for all planets and moons that have them.
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| I | Toggles cloud textures
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| U | Toggle galaxy rendering
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| Ctrl+E | Toggle eclipse shadow rendering
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| Ctrl+L | Toggle night side planet maps (light pollution)
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| Ctrl+S | Cycle the star style between fuzzy discs, points, and scaled discs
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| Ctrl+T | Toggle rendering of comet tails
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| Ctrl+W | Toggle wireframe mode
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| Ctrl-Y | Toggle Auto Magnitude mode, auto adaptation of star visibility when you change your field of view
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| Ctrl+X | Toggle antialias lines (makes lines look sharper or more smooth)
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| [ | If autoMag OFF: Decrease limiting magnitude (fewer stars visible)
If autoMag ON: Decrease limiting magnitude at 45 deg field of view
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| ] | If autoMag OFF: Increase limiting magnitude (more stars visible)
If autoMag ON: Increase limiting magnitude at 45 deg field of view
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| { | Decrease ambient illumination
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| } | Increase ambient illumination
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| , | Narrow field of view
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| . | Widen field of view
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