Hello Richard,

perhaps this source on the project pluto homepage is useful for you:

http://www.projectpluto.com/update8c.htm#pan_xtrol

It describes how you can alter the amount of one pan step.

> >> Just to add to my previous message; drawing rectangles doesn't give very fine
> >> control (at least, not on my laptop) so that's not an answer to the planets /
> >> Luna problem for me.
> > You may have turned 'Fixed Levels' on in the Extras menu. This forces the
> > rectangles
> > to be the size of the twenty zoom levels in Guide (by default, 180 degrees, 90
> > degrees, and so on down to 1 arcsecond.)
> >
> > I suggest leaving 'Fixed Levels' off, and setting level 20 to have a size
> > of .001
> > arcsecond. Do this, and you can zoom in far beyond the realm of reason.
> > Handy if you want to see Nix or Hydra (small moons of Pluto) as disks.
> >
> > -- Bill
>
> No, Extras | Fixed Levels is unchecked. How do I set the size of the
> zoom levels ? Settings | Level just selects the level.
>
> How do I fine control the panning ? The up and down arrows shift the
> screen way too much at a time for me. At level 4, the horizon is either
> partly off the screen, or almost halfway up the screen.

Clear skies
Bernd

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