StarFinder User's Guide

StarFinder is a free program that creates a whole sky map of the stars, planets and Moon designed for the beginning star gazer.

Features include:

• Easy to download (less than 300Kb zipped); simple install, use, and remove.
• Creates whole sky maps for your observing date, time and latitude.
• Emulates dark sky (lots of stars) to bright sky (few stars) observing conditions.
• Identifies objects (planets, stars, constellations) by position on the map.
• Helps you find constellations by name.
• Prints maps
• Saves maps as Enhanced Windows Metafiles (.emf).

System requirements:

• Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000.
• Software that can open .zip compressed archive files.
• About 2Mb of available hard disk space.

Contents

1. Downloading, Installing, and Removing
2. Using Whole-Sky Star Maps
3. Running StarFinder
4. Things To Do

Copyright (c) 2001 by G. L. Deitrick.
Permission to use is granted provided appropriate acknowledgement is given.

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