Visual settings

Tip

Expand and collapse the visual settings pane by clicking on the bolt button or with l.

The visual settings pane contains a few options to control the shading of stars and other elements:

• Star brightness – control the brightness of stars.

• Magnitude multiplier – exponent of power function that controls the brightness of stars. Controls the brightness difference between bright and faint stars.

• Star glow factor – close-by star size.

• Point size – size of point-like stars and other objects.

• Base star level – the minimum brightness level for all stars.

• Ambient light – control the amount of ambient light. This only affects the models such as the planets or satellites.

• Line width – control the width of all lines in Gaia Sky (orbits, velocity vectors, etc.).

• Label size – control the size of the labels.

• Elevation multiplier – scale the height representation for planets with elevation maps.

The visual settings pane.