Time command (Data menu)

Use this command to specify the time of day, and the date for the Virtual Sky.  By default, TheSky uses time from your computer’s internal clock. If you want to see how the sky will look tonight (or next week, or next month, or on 10/12/1492) you need to enter the appropriate month, day, year and time of day.

The Time dialog box has many different ways to set, adjust and view the time. You can adjust time by any of the following methods:

• Manually enter the month, day, year, and hour, minute and second to view the sky

• Click on the calendar to quickly view a particular day of the month

• Click and drag the hour, minute or second hands on the analog clock

• Speed time by selecting 50x or 500X computation speed

• Move forward in time at any user-defined time skip increment