The Menu

The Options menu has the following items:

Set Location - Set your current location
Set Date - Set the date
Set Time - Set the time
Preferences - Opens the Preferences screen.
Magn. Declination - Shows the magnetic declination or variation for the current location and lets you select true or magnetic azimuth.
Objects - Edit the objects list
Comets and Asteroids - Edit the comets and asteroids list
Compass View - Select Compass view
Sky View - Select Sky view
Twilight - Show Sunrise and -set and the Twilight times
Meteor Showers - Shows a list of annual meteor showers
Observation Log - Lets you take notes about your observations

The Time Incr menu lets you select a time step which is used with the two page up/down scroll buttons to step through the time. The last item "Custom..." lets you select an arbitrary time step.

The Info menu has the following items:

Help - Displays a help text for the currently selected view.
About - Shows the program version, the copyright, the web site and the support address.
Register - To enter the registration key.

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