![]() There is also a zoom control, and a function to search for particular objects. Keys exist to adjust the viewer's location, viewing direction, and time (all of which are shown on the display by default), and to control how many objects are rendered. It does not have a zero year.Ĭommands in the DOS version of Skyglobe are mostly keystroke-based, and by default the available keys are listed on the screen for reference. ![]() Skyglobe's dates use the Julian calendar until Octoand the Gregorian calendar thereafter. Skyglobe accounts for the earth's precession in its calculations and should therefore be accurate to tens of thousands of years in the past and the future, but its manual does warn that the positions of planets might not be accurate throughout this range (it says "their coordinates are approximately correct for as far back and forward as we have data").
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