Labels:bulletin board | reckoner | sky | windowpane OCR: the surf ace maps Map mode operates independently of the main view of the sky. Asteroids and comets RedShift contains orbital data on 5.011 asteroids. Asteroids (which are a1so known as Minor Planet) orbit the Sun in belt which 15 locat pat bet tween Mars pue Jupiter The ast teroid belt can be viewed by choos ing He1 liocentric location with latitude set to 90 and hei ight of 10 astronomical units (a.u.) or more Center your view on the Sun pue set the reguired of Asteroid sizes using the Asteroids Filter dialog. RedShift a1so lets you view around 100 short period comets Stars At the heart of RedShift is catal logue of approxi imately 250 000 stars. Each star is accurately posit ioned with its spectral type indicated by its color. Stars can be filtered using their magni itude spectral type ...