Orion 52084 instruction manual View Menu, Window Menu

View Menu

Zoom – Increases or decreases level of image magnification on computer screen. When you zoom in too much, you will start to see the squares of indi- vidual pixels. When zoomed in, you can use Quick Pan; simply hold down the Ctrl key, then left-click and drag the mouse on the image.

Night Vision – Toggles Night Vision mode. The red background helps preserve your night vision.

FITS Header Window – The FITS Header Window can be used to inspect the image FITS header, which stores information about the image. FITS is the stan- dard storage format for astronomical images. The window can remain open as a floating toolbox without interfering with other commands. If several images are opened at once, you can view the FITS header of each image by clicking on it with the mouse. Note that if you make changes to the image, they are not reflected in the viewer until the image is saved.

Toolbar – Selecting this creates a toolbar of “quick command” buttons at the top of the MaxIm DL Essentials program window. This can be a handy way to perform functions, especially when in the field and wearing gloves!

Status Bar – displays information on the current operation (when highlighted in its selection menu but not actually selected yet), the contrast ratio for the selected open image, the size of the currently selected image, the zoom factor, the coordinates of the mouse on the image, the intensity of the pixel under the cursor, and for color images, the red, green, and blue intensities of the pixel under the cursor.

Window Menu

New Window – This creates a second view of the currently selected image. The new view can be independently panned and zoomed, but will have the same stretch as the original window.

Fit to Image – This toggles the Fit to Image mode on and off. The Fit to Image mode causes the window for the image to be adjusted to the same size as the image. If the view is zoomed out, the window will shrink with it. If the view is zoomed in, the window will grow until it fills the main window.

Cascade, Tile Horizontally, Tile Vertically – These functions alter the way multiple open image frames are arranged and displayed within MaxIm DL Essentials Edition. These functions are very useful for organizing the visual display when processing large numbers of raw images for stacking.

Restore All – This command will restore all minimized image windows to the position they had within the MaxIm DL application window at the time they were minimized. This can be handy for sorting images. For example, when inspecting a set of images, you can close the ones you want to reject, and minimize the ones you want to keep. Once all the images have been reviewed you can restore the minimized windows to their original size and position.

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