Mpj Astro Manual

MPj Astro 1.5.1 Instruction Manual Introduction Welcome to Microprojects’ MPj Astro, astronomy programme for the Apple Macintosh. This instruction manual is your guide to MPj Astro and all of its features. For the most part, the topics in this manual are organized by MPj Astro’s main dialogues, menu titles and each item in those menus. Read the section called “Setup Dialogue” first. This section will tell you what you need to do to have MPj Astro display the night sky as seen from your location and remember those settings. From there, you are free to experiment and try out all the features, menu items and controls. You will probably want to read through this manual in its entirety at some point. That way you can get a better understanding of the variety of features available and learn what methods best suit you to use this application. Help balloons are available for all menu items, the main dialogues and display features. Microprojects hopes that you have many hours of enjoyment , discovery and learning about astronomy with MPj Astro. PLEASE SUPPORT SHAREWARE Go to Registration Page MPj Astro Manual Introduction Page 1 Installation Shareware Installer To install MPj Astro on your hard disk simply double-click on the MPj Astro Installer icon. You will be asked where you want to install the programme and then several files will be uncompressed and placed in a folder named Microprojects. The installer remains unaltered after the installation. Once installed, the Microprojects folder should contain the MPj Astro application, a READ ME file, four data documents, a shortcuts file in the AstroText folder and this manual. The best version (68k, fpu, ppc) of MPj Astro for your computer will be automatically installed. Registration Installer This installer contains 35 high resolution astronomy photographs and the AstroStar document which contains data on all 7th and 8th magnitude stars (~65k stars). If you have a registered version of MPj Astro 1.4, 1.4.1 or 1.5, you can upgrade to version 1.5.1 at no cost. See the MPj READ ME file for information. Launching MPj Astro You launch MPj Astro like any other Macintosh application. You can select the MPj Astro icon and chose Open from the Finder menu or you can double click on the icon. You can also double click on any MPj Astro document although these documents are not available to you to be changed in any way. You can also create an alias of MPj Astro, place it anywhere you like, and launch from the alias. A registration dialogue will appear the first time you launch MPj Astro after using the registration installer. Please enter your name where indicated. This will register you as the user of your copy of MPj Astro and your name will appear in the start-up display each time you launch MPj Astro. If you ever have to change the registered name, hold down the option key as you launch MPj Astro and the…