Introduction to RedShift3
01.1 What's new in RedShift 3
01.2 RedShift 3 how and why (FAQs)
Operating RedShift
02. Sky window & filters
03. Find object and object info
04. Location & motion types
05. Control panels
06. Sky window
07. Home window
08. Online books
Filters
Filter dialog and the Sky window
09. Planets & Moons
10. Asteroids & Comets
11. Spacecraft
12. Stars
13. Deep sky objects
14. Constellations
15. Guides
Find Object and Object Info
16. Find object
17. Object Info
18. Brief Star Object Info
19. Brief Deep Sky Object Info
Control Panels
20. Working with time
21. Working with location
23. Aim panel & change direction activities
24. Track aim panel & Motion preview sub-panel
Information
25. Astronomy Tours
26. News
27. Dictionary of Astronomy
28. Photo Gallery
29. Story of the Universe
30. Record Breakers
Events
31. Eclipses
32. Conjunctions
33. Visibility reports
34. Sky Diary
35. Ephemerides
Tools
36. Movie Recorder
37. Adding your own objects
Saving and Restoring views
38. Saving & Restoring views
Customising RedShift
39. Customising RedShift
Printing
40. Printing

APPENDIX

The base principles of the astronomical simulations
1. Sky map projection
2. RedShift Co-ordinate Reference Frames
3. RedShift Time Scales and Calendar Reference Frames
4. The Simulation of the Star's and Deep Sky Object's Positions in RedShift
5. Computation of the positions of the Solar System bodies
6. Representation of the Orbital Motion of the Planets and the Moon
7. Calculation of the orbital ephemerides of the planetary satellites
8. Calculation of the Orbital Motion of Asteroids and Comets
9. Computation of spacecraft orbits
10. Finding the Solution of the Two-body Problem
11. Numerical integration of the equation of motion of celestial bodies
12. Representation of the Correct View of the Surface of Planets & Moons and their Phases
13. Calculations of the visual magnitudes of the Solar system
14. Representing deep sky object magnitudes
15. Representing the solar corona
16. Representing comet tails
Sources of the astronomical data
17. Planetary and Lunar ephemerides
18. Theories of motion of the satellites of planets
19. Star catalog
20. Deep sky object catalog
21. Asteroids
22. Comets
23. Spacecraft
24. Parameters for astronomical reductions and transformation
25. Representing planet and moon surfaces
Accuracy of RedShift astronomical representation
26. Accuracy of the RedShift Astronomical Representation
27. Testing RS3 against historical events