This file comes in four sections; you may not need to read them all, but everyone needs to read section 1:
1) Stuff you won't find in the manual or leaflet: late-breaking information with this version of the software.
2) I'm a new user - where do I start?
3) What are the new features in RedShift 2.0?
4) How do I install RedShift (more detailed instructions than those found in your box)?
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1) STUFF YOU WON'T FIND IN THE MANUAL OR LEAFLET: late-breaking information with your version of the software
In your box you will find the RedShift 2 manual and a Guide to Space Flight leaflet. If you're a new user, see 2) below, then use the manual and tutorials to familiarize yourself with RedShift before you enjoy the suggestions in the leaflet.
Since the leaflet was printed, two significant improvements have been made to the program's Space Flight feature. Bear these in mind when you
read the leaflet.
1) When you choose an object that has more than one setting, playing the Recommended settings will join together the settings files and show them end to end. For example, if you select Voyager 2 Injection to Jupiter (Locate me on it) and run time, when that sequence has finished playing, RedShift will load the settings for Voyager 2 Jupiter entered, and so on for the whole Voyager mission.
This means that you can sit and travel through the whole Solar System on the Voyager missions, or see the entire sequence of other missions in nearly continuous space travel. These are not movies: you can change them. If you stop time running you can see the planets with different magnifications, phases switched on or off, varying all RedShift settings except date and time steps. Enjoy your journey!
You can stop the sequence at any time by clicking the Stop button on the Control Time panel; you may wish to do this to examine a planet in more detail, or implement some of the suggestions in the leaflet.
2) Time steps now alter dynamically, to speed up and slow down the rate at which you view a journey, according to the interest of visible features. For example on Apollo 13's journey to the moon, the time
steps are larger on the flight in space between Earth and the Moon, which is a relatively lackluster journey through cold dark space!
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2) I'm a new user - where do I start?
RedShift has an entire feature designed to help new users; it's called Tutorials. Do this:
1) Install RedShift (you have printed instructions in the box, and they are repeated in a little more detail at the end of this file) and double-click on its icon to open it.
2) Click Main Program or press Return.
3) Go to the Information menu and select Tutorials.
4) All the tutorials simultaneously teach you astronomy and how to use RedShift's controls and settings. If you want to reach straight into outer space, try going to Mars with Observe Mars from its moon, Phobos [13/20] (scroll down the list).
Read also page 3 of the manual for other speedy ways to get the most out of RedShift.
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3) What are the new features in RedShift 2.0?
RedShift 2 is the first major upgrade to RedShift. For those who've already used the program, this is a review of the new features. There's a quick summary on them on page 4 of the manual: here we are able to
give a bit more detail and take you through some of them step by step.
The opening screen for RedShift 2 offers you two options: Guided Tours and Main Program. To go to Guided Tours, the new astronomy tutor feature with music, sound and narration, click on the Guided Tours Button. The music is from "RedShift Suite", a space-age symphony, written about the original RedShift by composer Jean-Pierre Garatoni. RedShift Suite is available separately. Narration is by Hannah
Gordon.
ò The ten Guided Tours introduce the basic principles of astronomy and help users find their way around the sky. Choose a tour by clicking on the picture of the tour youÆve selected. To experience the range of the Guided Tours try these three: History of the Solar System, Double Stars, and Find Your Way Around The Night Sky.
Tip: You can advance quickly through each tour by clicking the Progress Bar at the bottom of the animation. Tours can be interrupted at any time to return to the Guided Tours interface screen by clicking the Back button located on the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. This will return you to the Guided Tours Menu Screen.
ò RedShift 2 lets you hitchhike on satellites, space probes, comets, and asteroids with Space Flight. We're so excited about this great feature, we've included a special booklet in with the main manual
to focus in detail on the objects you can take for a ride. From the Guided Tours menu screen, click the Space Flight button in the left-hand corner.
To ride Apollo 13 from Earth around the moon, scroll down the list. Click the folder to open the file. Click the settings file. Click OK.
To start the flight, go to the Control Time Panel and click the far right arrow. To stop the ride, click on the Stop Button (the black square button in the Control Time Panel).
To choose another experience, hit the Stop Button on the Control Time Panel and choose Space Flight again.
Another great voyage is Lageos-1, a satellite that orbits Earth. Or try a ride on fragment nine of the Shoemaker-Levy comet as it crashes into Jupiter. (You'll see Jupiter loom close up, but don't worry, you won't see the crash!)
Tip: If you click the Show me it Button, youÆll get a different perspective of your adventure. Try Venera-13 both ways. Venera-13 is a space probe that was launched from Earth to Venus. Watch the orbital
paths (click Show me it) or experience the flight (click Locate me on it). Remember, because these are being calculated in real time, and the distances the objects are traveling are enormous, the flights can take a while. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride!
Once you have finished with the Space Flight feature, select Default Settings from the Controls Menu. This will return you to a general view of the sky. (If the command is dimmed, close all the controls and
settings panels open.)
ò From the general view of the sky (the default settings) pull down Display from the Main Menu Bar and choose Object Filters. This opens a dialog box that lets you control the display of the various objects
you can see in the sky. Click the Stars Tab; this brings the Stars page to the front. Drag the right Magnitude Slider down to the bottom of the scale (Magnitude 12) and switch off the Zoom-dependent filtering button. Then click OK.
This procedure shows all 260,000 stars stored in RedShift 2 (the default operation, limits the number of stars displayed depending on their brightness and the current zoom setting). You will now see the sky covered with stars. Each star displayed is æhotÆ. Clicking any one of them will result in an Object Window being displayed. This window links to the Penguin Dictionary of Astronomy.
Tip: To change your view of the sky, first click the Constells or Grids (or both) buttons on the control panel to the far left of the screen. This will help orientate you relative to your hemisphere. Then pull
down Display from the Main Menu Bar and choose Telescope Views, and any sub-menu, eg Equatorial View, Inverted Equatorial, Ecliptic View or Galactic View. For a real change of pace, pull down Display and choose Atlas Views, Polar Projection. To return home go: Display/Telescope View/Horizon.
Displaying nearly 260,000 objects slows down the speed at which RedShift can draw the sky, so you may want to check again the zoom dependent filtering box in the stars filter. Pull down Controls from
the Main Menu Bar and choose Default Settings to restore the general view of the sky.
ò RedShift 2 displays a grid to show the plane of the ecliptic. This is an imaginary plane in our solar system in which nearly all of the planets orbit. The exception is Pluto, whose orbit is angled significantly relative to the ecliptic. From the general view, pull
down Display from the Main Menu Bar and choose Markers. A dialog box will appear. Check Ecliptic Grid, Ecliptic Axes, and Show Markers. Click OK.
To get a good view of the plane of the ecliptic, we will locate ourselves on Pluto, which is the outermost planet. Pull down Controls and select Choose Location. A dialog box will appear; select Pluto. Click the Center of Object button under Location. Click OK.
Now pull down Controls and Center on Planet and choose Sun from the sub-menu.
Finally, pull down Display and choose Object Filters.
This opens the Object Filters dialog box. Choose Planets. In the Planets dialog, click the Icon Button (each planet will now display as an icon), check the Show Labels and Show Orbits Buttons, and then click
the Labels and Orbits Buttons under Magnification to turn them on for every planet. Click OK.
You can get a good idea of how close the Earth is to the Sun, relative to the outer planets, by slowly zooming in (press the + key repeatedly). There will be a slight delay as RedShift 2 calculates each frame in real time, and moves through the massive distance from Pluto to the inner planets!
To see the next new feature, go to the general sky view by pulling down Controls and selecting Default Settings.
ò RedShift 2Æs Movie Gallery contains many new videos and animation sequences. From the general view of the sky, go to Information on the Main Menu Bar. Pull it down and go to the Movie Gallery. There are 20 movies to choose from. To get a range of whatÆs available we suggest you view these three:
Merger of Galaxies (itÆs number 2), Mechanism of a Nova (number 4), and Local Structure of the Universe (number 9).
The movie of the shuttle EndeavorÆs Rescue of Intelsat IV is an excellent example of mankindÆs voyages into space. The movies of Venus are also quite spectacular.
To select a movie, click on the Film Strip Icon on the movie thumbnail. Click the Start Button to play the movie. To stop a movie, click the second from left button on the Progress Bar. To close the Movie window click the button in the upper left-hand corner of the window. After you have viewed the movies, leave the Movie Gallery by clicking the upper left corner of the Gallery Window. Try the Photo Gallery next.
ò The updated Photo Gallery contains the most stunning views astronomers have photographed. Pull down Information from the Main Menu Bar and choose Photo Gallery. To see a particular photograph, scroll down the index to choose a gallery. Enter the gallery by clicking on your gallery selection. To bring a particular photograph full screen, click the Magnifying Glass Icon.
Try looking at the following photographs. First, locate the 5th photo in the Historical Maps Gallery which can be found under The Sky, Constellations. ItÆs the constellation of Auriga. This map was created in 1732 by Bayer Uranometria.
Clicking Return on the photo and Back on the Gallery will return you to the Gallery Index. Also try to find the 13th photo under: The Galaxy, sub-gallery Interstellar Matter. ItÆs the dust lanes in Messier 16. (No traffic jam jokes please!) To return to the main program simply click the Close box in the Photo Gallery window.
Tip: DonÆt miss the Eruption from the Sun in UV light from Skylab seriesûin the last third of the Sun gallery. Another beautiful shot is the Tarantula Nebula (look for it in the Photo Gallery index). To fully appreciate the beauty of the universe, turn out all the lights in the
room and go through the galleries in the dark.
ò RedShift can now show you four detailed Planet Maps: Venus has been added to them. From the general sky view (default settings - pull down
Controls from the Main Menu Bar; choose Default Settings), pull down Information from the Main Menu Bar, choose Maps. Earth is the default map.
To select Venus, click the second button from the left in the icon panel. This will open the panel that controls which planetÆs map is displayed. Scroll past the maps of Earth, Moon, and Mars by pressing the Up Button next to the black dialog box. Venus is the map after Mars. Click OK.
To explore the planet, click the first button in the top icon box, the one that looks like a globe. This pulls down a Globe Control Panel. To label points of interest, click the square Map Setting Button between
the Grid and Label Buttons. Click on the features you want to label: Features or Landing Sites (or both).
Click OK. Click the Label button to activate the labels.
To find something click the Find button. This will bring up the Gazetteer Dialog Box. Click on Features to list the geological points of interest on Venus, or Landing Sites to list those. Select from the list displayed to the left of the buttons. Click OK. RedShift 2 will place a red cross-hair over your choice. YouÆll probably have to move the Control Panels to find the cross-hairs.
To move the Control Panels grab the horizontal lines across the top of the icon bar and drag the panel to somewhere else on the screen.
To return to the default settings, click Return on the top icon bar.
ò This ends your tour of the biggest new features in RedShift 2. Of course, thereÆs much more to the program including sky charts, visibility reports, eclipses, conjunctions, and all the other features
youÆve come to expect from RedShift.
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4) HOW DO I INSTALL REDSHIFT 2.0?
Printed instructions are supplied on a standalone sheet in the RedShift box; if you have mislaid the sheet you can use the instructions below, which also give a little more detail. RedShift will run directly off
CD-ROM; however, performance will be considerably enhanced if the application is copied onto hard disc (it occupies about 3 megabytes). The software requires a minimum of 2 megabytes of available memory, preferably 4 (Macintosh users should give RedShift as much memory as they can).
For Windows 3.1 or 3.11 users
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Step 1. If you haven't already turned on your computer and started Windows, do so now.
Step 2. Place the RedShift disk in the plastic disc holder (if required) and insert it into the CD-ROM drive.
Step 3. Open the Program Manager window, click File to display the File menu, and then click Run.
Step 4. In the Command Line box, type the drive letter for the CD-ROM drive, a colon, a backslash, and the word INSTALL (for example, type d:\install).
Step 5. Click OK or press enter.
Step 6. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen. RedShift requires QuickTime for Windows (QTW) and QTW 2.1.1 will be installed by default. Accept this option unless you have a more recent version.
To start RedShift double click on the RedShift 2 application icon. Click Main Program on the title screen.
NB: Guided tours are best viewed using 64,000
colours.
For Windows 95 users
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Step 1. If you haven't already turned on your computer and started Windows, do so now.
Step 2. Place the RedShift disk in the plastic disc holder (if required) and insert it into the CD-ROM drive.
Step 3. Click the start button and choose Run.
Step 4. In the Command Line box, type the drive letter for the CD-ROM drive, a colon, a backslash, and the word INSTALL (for example, type d:\install).
Step 5. Click OK or press enter.
Step 6. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen. RedShift requires QuickTime for Windows (QTW) and QTW 2.1.1 will be installed by default. Accept this option unless you have a more recent version.
To start RedShift click the start button and choose the RedShift group from the program menu, then select the RedShift 2 application. Click Main Program on the title screen.
NB: Guided tours are best viewed using 64,000
colours.
For Macintosh and Power Macintosh users
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Step 1. Insert the RedShift CD-ROM into a CD-ROM drive attached to your Macintosh. The disk window will open to show you the RedShift 2 program icon.
Step 2.Install QuickTime 2.5
QuickTime is a System Extension developed by Apple Computer. It should be installed in the Extensions folder, inside the System Folder, on your computer's hard disk. A copy of QuickTime 2.5 is provided on the 'RedShift 2.0' CD-ROM. To install QuickTime 2.5 on your computer double-click the 'Install QuickTime' alias on CD-ROM.
Step 3. Drag the RedShift 2 application to your hard disk. Although RedShift will work perfectly from the CD-ROM, many operations will be faster if the application is installed on your hard disk. Create a
new folder and drag the RedShift application (not the whole CD-ROM) into it.
Step 4. Double-click the RedShift 2 application icon installed on your hard disk to start the program. Click Main Program on the title screen.
For up to date technical help with RedShift see our world wide web
pages at
http://www.maris.com
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