The Object Browser is accessible from Tools tab,
Related videos:
The Deep Sky tab contains information about 545 deep sky objects - the Messier Catalog, Herschel 400 Catalog, and most of Caldwell and Hidden Treasures catalogs.
Selecting an object will display information like Name, Constellation, Magnitude, Size and interesting facts about it. The last column -
The main sources for interesting facts about the Messier objects are “
http://wikipedia.org” and “
http://seds.org/messier”/. The facts for the other objects and all audio recordings are compiled and recorded by Jeff Seivert.
To install the audio extension, download the desired package from the Download page of the APT’s site and install it. The button "Play" in Object Browser will be available for all objects with audio information.
Note: See the
Object Browser section for information about information about the
Object Details,
Type filter,
Visibility filter, and object list columns.
Enabling the option "Show the extended list" will show 21 253 objects in the list. (Great thanks to Andrew Knight for compiling it!). Note that on slow computers it cloud take some time to load especially if next option is also enabled.
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Show button shows the selected object in the
planetarium application.
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Add Trigger button opens the
Add Trigger dialog box in
SessionCraft and populates the object name as tag name, object name and the coordinates. If the object is not above defined
air mass limit the AML Up time will be prepopulated. If the object is above the
air mass limit the current time will be set as trigger starting time.
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DB Search button opens the
Database Browser with using the object name as prepopulated search criteria. By default the search criteria is build to look for different forms of the name.
Shift+Click creates search criteria for the exact object name.
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Add in ToDo button adds the selected object in the
ToDo tab.
Shift+Click will adds the selected object in the
Custom tab.
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In AstroBin button opens your web browser and looks for images of the selected object in
AstroBin using wildcards.
Shift+Click will search for exact name.
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In Telescopius button opens your web browser and looks for images of the selected object in
Telescopius.
Shift+Click opens the Telescopius Mosaics tool, when a mosaic is created, use Download CSV. After that you can import it in
Custom /
ToDo tabs.
To change the list order click on the column you want to define the order.
Tips&Tricks Shift+Click on OK button will but in the clipboard the command #GoTo with the RA/Dec of the selected object.
