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also shown on the printed chart. You can reach the Legend menu
either by clicking on the Legend item in the Display menu,  or
by hitting Ctrl-L. It looks like this:

  Show Legend
Show Time
Time Zone
Lat/Lon
Caption
RA/Dec
Field Size
Object key
Mag Key
Compass
Sky Atlas 2000
Uranometria
New Uranometria
Millennium
Alt/Az
Ecliptic coords                    
Galactic coords                    
Supergalactic coords               
Hour Angle                         
Second Time
Layout:           Position:
 (x) Vertical      (x) Bottom
 ( ) Horizontal    ( ) Top
(x) Left  ( ) Right  ( ) Center
Caption text:
                                        
   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.)
                                                            
   When you turn the "Second Time" option on,  Guide will ask you to
select a time zone.  The legend will then contain the "usual" time,
but will also show you the "second time" in a different zone.  This
can be used to ensure that,  for example,  the legend shows the time
in UT,  but that you can still have the local time shown for reference,

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