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Jeff Moe 2022-11-19 11:45:22 -07:00
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@ -58,14 +58,22 @@ That's a 24h prediction for BW3 for the example location.
* Orange tracks are in sunlight but during daytime.
* Yellow tracks are in sunlight but during night time.
The example has two passes during night time:
* Low South East.
* Low South West.
In interactive mode, use `l` to change the track length to 3600 secs (1 hour).
To use `skymap` in interactive mode, launch `skymap` from the command line.
When you hit `l` in the graphical display, the prompt will be in the terminal
window.
Then use `.` to move time forward with these 1 hour steps.
It makes it faster if `skymap` is run without drawing stars until needed,
especially during frequent re-renders.
Disable viewing stars with `shift-Q`.
![skymap tutorial 2](img/skymap-tutorial-02.png)
At some point you'll get the first pass.
Then use `<` a few times to reduce the timestep size to something like 450 seconds.

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