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available options, organized by topic. In addition, each item has a short
explanation of what the option does, and the data type of the option's value. We
find UseAltAz under the Skymap Options category. Just highlight this item and
press OK, and it will be selected in the combobox of the Function Arguments
panel. Finally, make its value “false” or “0”.
One more step: changing UseAltAz at the end of the script does us no good; we
need this to be changed before anything else happens. So, make sure this
function is highlighted in the Current Script box, and press the Move Up button
until it is the first function.
Now that we have finished the script, we should save it to disk. Press the Save
Script button. This will first open a window in which you can provide a name for
the script, and fill in your name as the author. Enter “Tracking the Moon” for a
name, and your name as the author, and press OK. Next, you will see the
standard KDE Save File dialog. Specify a filename for the script and press OK to
save the script. Note that if your filename does not end with “.kstars”, this suffix
will be automatically attached. If you are curious, you can examine the script file
with any text editor.
Now that we have a completed script, we can run it in a couple of ways. From a
console prompt, you can simply execute the script as long as an instance
of KStars is currently running. Alternatively, you can execute the script from
within KStars using the Run Script... item in the File menu.
18.4.7 Solar System Viewer
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