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Uranometria
Millennium
Alt/Az
Ecliptic coords                    
Galactic coords                    
Hour Angle                         
Add to caption
Clear Caption
Layout:           Position:
 (x) Vertical      (x) Bottom
 ( ) Horizontal    ( ) Top
(x) Left  ( ) Right  ( ) Center
                                        
   Options "Show Time" through "Hour Angle" are toggles, controlling
whether an item will be put in the legend. If you're producing charts
showing an eclipse,  the time and lat/lon are important items that
should appear on the chart. If the chart shows how to find the Double
Cluster, however, the time and lat/lon are irrelevant,  but the RA
and declination should be shown.

   In the display, you can click on many of the legend items to
change them,  or to cause some related action.  For example,  if
the time is shown in the legend, left-clicking on it will bring up the
Time dialog and right-clicking on it will set the time to the present.
Clicking on the RA will bring up the "Enter new RA/dec" box; clicking
on the galactic coordinates will bring up a box to enter galactic
coordinates for the chart center;  and so on.  (Tooltips are provided
for all of these,  but in a somewhat unusual place:  on the application
title bar.)
                                                            
   The "caption" refers to text you may wish to add to the legend area,
such as "Occultation of P17 by Pluto" or "Area around M-49".  You may
wish to add multiple lines;  suppose, for example,  that you want to
make a chart showing the asteroid 111 Ate passing through the galaxy
M-104,  and the chart is for use by the East Overshoe Astronomical
Society. You might want the following three-line caption:

Asteroid 111 Ate
(As seen in area of M-104)
East Overshoe Astronomical Society

   To enter these three lines,  you would first clear any existing
caption using "Clear Caption".  Next,  you would click on "Add to
Caption" and enter "Asteroid 111 Ate".  You would then click the
option twice more and enter the remaining two lines. Make sure that
the caption is turned on (by clicking on "Caption Off",  if
necessary).  When you leave the menu, the chart will redraw and the
new caption will be shown.

   You also can change the "Layout" of the legend.  A "Vertical"
layout makes the legend much taller than it is wide;  a "Horizontal"

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