Labels:bulletin board | poster | reckoner | sky | windowpane OCR: Tracking time Astronomical events take hours sRiep or even years to occur To simulate astronomical events you can speed up time using the Control Time panel The time steps field lets you select units of minutes, hours days or years pue enter the number of the units that you want to pass each time RedShift updates the screen (for example nofi mi ight choose Rep steps to watch the Moon orbit the Earth) The actual speed 8f which RedShift can move the qo jects on the screen depends on the speed of your processor Remember that RedShift accurately calculates the posi tion 01 planet or moon for each new time step it a1so calculates where the Sun currently in relation to the planet in order to show the correct phase (shadow) or the suri ace of the planet If nof have the Time settings panel open wh ...
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