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@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ The <i>File system</i> panel shows other images in the same directory as the loa
<i>Stretch panel</i> containing various options for auto-stretching linear image data.</p>
<p>All panels in the interface can be moved around and/or closed. Any closed or non-visible panel can be
re-opened through the <i>Docks</i> menu at the top.</p>
<p>At bottom there is status bar that show current lightness or red, green, blue pixel value under mouse cursor then X and Y coordinates and
if image contain World Coordinate System metadata it show celestial coorinates.</p>
<h3>Opening and saving images</h3>
<p>To load an image select <i>File->Open</i> and choose the file. After a file is loaded, it becomes visible in the main image panel, and the
@ -70,6 +72,17 @@ After copying or moving, the list of marked files is cleared. The list of marked
files will be shown with bold text. Third way to mark files is from thumnails view where you can press press <i>Shift</i> and click with left
mouse button and drag across thumbnails to mark them. Holding <i>Ctrl</i> will unmark files.</p>
<h3>File system and tree</h3>
<p>File system panel contain list of images in current opened directory. You can select file from this list and it will be displayed. It is also possible to
use arrow keys to go back (left and up) and forth (right and down) between images.</p>
<p>File tree show file system structure. You can right click to show context menu to perform various actions from <i>File</i> menu. There are also few others
<ul>
<li><i>Set as root directory</i> show only this directory and subdirectories</li>
<li><i>Reset root directory</i> show whole file system</li>
<li><i>Go up</i> show directory that is one level above current root directory</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h3>Database of FITS/XISF files</h3>
<p>Tenmon can scan a directory of FITS/XISF files and index metadata from FITS headers into it's internal database. This allows searching and sorting images based on that metadata.</p>
<p>To populate the database, select a directory of FITS/XISF files with <i>File->Index directory</i>.
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<p>Also at the bottom of the database panel are three combo boxes and text inputs used for filtering.
Select the property to filter on with the combo box and in the adjacent text box enter a string to search for in that property.
These three combo box contain list of all properties that are found during indexing except first five. First one set searching in file name.
Next two "RA pos" and "DEC pos" allow to filter out indexed images that contain point with entered RA/DEC coorinate. Expected format is three
number separated by space. In case of "DEC pos" it also accept +- sign. Ommiting one or two last number is also valid. Some examples "02 12 32" "-12 43 12" "+45 32" "13".
So for RA it means hour, minutes and seconds while for DEC it is degrees, minutes and seconds.
Setting both "RA pos" and "DEC pos" can return images that doesn't contain entered point as it search against minimum and maximum RA/DEC coordinates that images contain.
"RA range" and "DEC range" filter out images which center coordinate is withing entered range.
Pressing Enter or clicing on <i>Filter</i> button will filter out database record accoring to search parameter.
<p>Wildcards:
<ul>
<li><b>%</b> (percent) is a wildcard representing zero or more of any characters.</li>