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Finding Named Planet using F3?
decker12Date: Saturday, 11.01.2014, 06:54 | Message # 1
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Hello everyone, I have just joined this forum and started exploring the universe with Space Engine. So far I'm amazed and delighted but I'm having a hopefully very simply problem:

I'm playing with my daughter and we've found a planet we.. "like". So far this has been a great science tool. Using the Info panel, I've edited the Planet and gave it a name, lets say Daughter Land. I particular enjoy how the planet's name in the Info panel is now "Daughter Land / Tau 5", basically showing it's new name AND the old name.

After I've named the planet, we go around exploring some more, and now I want to go back to Daughter Land. I hit F3 and try to search for Daughter Land, but all I get is Object not Found. I notice that I can find the planet in the Log, but I can't seem to search for it using F3. What am I missing?

Also on a side note, it was incredibly - and I mean INCREDIBLY - frustrating trying to get past the CAPTCHAs to sign up for this forum. I must have had to type in my user information over and over again about 10 times. I must have failed the CAPTCHA about 30 times and every so often it'd clear all my form data and I'd have to input it again. The CAPTCHA is amazingly unreadable, and I've signed up for hundreds of forums with hundreds of types of CAPTCHAs. After I received the email verification, I had ANOTHER captcha (a different kind but just as unreadable!) that I failed about 5 times, and then when I signed into the forum I had ANOTHER captcha that I got lucky with and only had to put it in a few times. I feel like I've gone through a war trying to get to this point to sign into the forum and post this message!

Anyway, so far my 7 year old and I LOVE LOVE this program and look forward to donating and staying involved.
 
HarbingerDawnDate: Saturday, 11.01.2014, 08:23 | Message # 2
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Quote decker12 ()
I hit F3 and try to search for Daughter Land, but all I get is Object not Found

The name won't show up in the F3 search list, but if you type the name exactly and hit enter, it should select it.

Quote decker12 ()
Also on a side note, it was incredibly - and I mean INCREDIBLY - frustrating trying to get past the CAPTCHAs to sign up for this forum

Sorry sad We originally had a more readable system, but it wasn't effective at defeating spambots so we had to switch to something else. I personally find this one to be quite readable, but I know not everyone does. We'll look into getting a new system. Sorry again for your inconvenience.

Quote decker12 ()
Anyway, so far my 7 year old and I LOVE LOVE this program and look forward to donating and staying involved.

Thank you, and I'm glad you two are enjoying it smile



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apenpaapDate: Saturday, 11.01.2014, 10:18 | Message # 3
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Why don't we use reCAPTCHA? While I too find our current captchas easy (and handy for being short), it's got to be hell on anyone with even the slightest form of colour blindness.



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QuontexDate: Saturday, 11.01.2014, 10:56 | Message # 4
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While Sending mesages i to find the captcha a pain.

Back on topic.
This may seem a dumb question but did you save the location using F6? That can save alot of time trying to find a nice planet again.



 
JCandeiasDate: Saturday, 11.01.2014, 15:05 | Message # 5
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Quote HarbingerDawn ()
Quote decker12 ()
Also on a side note, it was incredibly - and I mean INCREDIBLY - frustrating trying to get past the CAPTCHAs to sign up for this forum

Sorry sad We originally had a more readable system, but it wasn't effective at defeating spambots so we had to switch to something else. I personally find this one to be quite readable, but I know not everyone does. We'll look into getting a new system. Sorry again for your inconvenience.


I find it very, very hard to read. That is, until I enlarge the images. Once I do, it becomes fully readable.

That's what my advise would be for people who struggle with the captcha images: enlarge them. Most browsers have plugins to do that even if they don't do it natively. You just have to install and be happy.



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QuontexDate: Saturday, 11.01.2014, 15:40 | Message # 6
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Quote JCandeias ()
Most browsers have plugins to do that
Ctrl - Scroll?



 
HarbingerDawnDate: Saturday, 11.01.2014, 17:19 | Message # 7
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Quote Quontex ()
Ctrl - Scroll

Yeah, every browser I've ever used can zoom by Ctrl-Mousewheel, and reset zoom by Ctrl-0.



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JCandeiasDate: Saturday, 11.01.2014, 17:52 | Message # 8
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Quote Quontex ()
Ctrl - Scroll?


Yeah, that zooms the whole page. It works, but I usually prefer zooming only the image I need zoomed. Quirks.



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ZangDate: Saturday, 01.03.2014, 18:24 | Message # 9
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A Firefox add-on called Image Zoom works great for this.

Right-click and hold on an image and then use the scroll wheel.
No reaching for the keyboard.



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