Keyboard

The ? button at the bottom left, or Shift+F1, opens a strip of keycaps for the ship and the camera. Keys that do nothing in the current camera mode are dimmed. F1 opens the written help page inside the app. Press F1 again to close it.

Shortcuts are ignored while you are typing in a text box, except Esc, F1, Shift+F1, and the script-console keys. Space types a space in a text box. Outside a text box, Space jumps to search.

View and panels

Key	Action
Space	Open search
Esc	Close a dialog or menu. Otherwise leave presentation, close the script console, or show and hide the side panels
V	Photo Real. In the solar-system chart and the planisphere, this is Presentation
P	Presentation
F1	Help page
Shift+F1	Keyboard strip
F4	Save a screenshot
F6	Free-Fly in 3D Universe. In 3D Orbit, unlock flying
F12, Ctrl+J or Command+J, or backtick	Script console
Enter	Zoom in on the target, or zoom back out
G	Grids
U	Orbit flight tapes, in 3D Orbit
K	Angular scale bars
Command or Ctrl, with + − or 0	Zoom the buttons and text, not the sky

Look and zoom

Key	Action
Arrow keys	Look. In orbit-to-target, they swing around the object. Shift+Up and Shift+Down are field of view, not look
Page Up, Shift+Up	Narrower field of view
Page Down, Shift+Down	Wider field of view
Shift+Left, Shift+Right	Roll
Z	Level the roll. In fly modes, also look along the ship’s nose
Shift+Z	In 3D Orbit, aim the ship at the direction you are looking
Y, H	Faster, slower

Ship

Unused when you are only looking around the sky sphere.

Key	Free-Fly	3D Orbit
W, S	Pitch the nose	Altitude up, down
A, D	Yaw	Turn. Also starts a flight from a hover
Q, E	Bank	Bank
R, F	Thrust forward, back	Along the track. Also starts a flight from a hover

Time

Key	Action
[ ]	Back or forward 10 minutes
Shift + [ ]	60 minutes
Ctrl + [ ]	1 minute
\	Back to the current time