Mercinova's Google Earth Tutorial

Tutorial how to use Google Earth
 

 

This page is the tutorial to using Google Earth software for exploring the sky space, other tutorial for exploring the Earth can be found if you click on the menu below:

Exploring the Earth (click here to open other page)

	Exploring the sky

This tutorial is divided in three pages, each page explaining one of three menu panels that available in the Google Earth screen, this page is explaining how to use Tool Bar Menu, other Menu Panel tutorial can be accessed by clicking in the links below:

Tool Bar Menu Panel Tutorial

The Tool Bar Menu Panel located on the upper side screen, contain several buttons with different functionality. Follow the explanation below:

Hide Side Bar
To make the Side Bar Menu on the left screen disappear, this function will expand the screen view but different from full screen function (F11) the Windows Title Bar and Taskbar still appears, click this icon again to make the Side Bar Menu appears.

Add Placemark
This Menu is to making a place-mark for your favorite sky object coordinate, indicated by customizable icon symbol with the title of your location.

Click on image to see larger version

The sequential procedure to make Placemark in the Sky version of Google earth is same as in the Earth version, you can open the tutorial page by clicking here.

Add Polygon
To Add a Polygon at your favorite place, you can put a multi sides object anywhere in the map, such as triangle, square, hexagon or irregular shape.

You can change the border and surface color of the polygon, but the Altitude option is not work well in this Sky version of Google Earth.
The sequence to make Polygon in the Sky version of Google earth is same as in the Earth version, you can open the tutorial page by clicking here.

Add Path
This facility is to making a lined path in the map, you can make it thin or bold in any color, the sequence to make a path is similar to the sequence to make a polygon, but the path doesn't have closed point as a polygon.
The sequential procedure to make Path in the Sky version of Google earth is same as in the Earth version, you can open the tutorial page by clicking here.

Add Image Overlay
To add an image on the specific location, the image can be from your hard disk or URL link, useful to make a logo or some accessories on the map.
The sequential procedure to make Path in the Sky version of Google earth is same as in the Earth version, you can open the tutorial page by clicking here.

Show Ruler
This facility utilized to measuring the length of an object on the sky or knowing the distance from a object to other object.
But the working measurement is only in Degrees, the other options give you the wrong result.

In this example I try to get the length between the left finger and the right finger of Eagle Nebula that give the result 0.03 Degrees.

The sequential procedure to make Path in the Sky version of Google earth is same as in the Earth version, you can open the tutorial page by clicking here.

Sky
To changing the Google Earth view from the map of planet Earth to the map of astronomic view, and vice versa. If you already in the sky view you can click this button again to change to Earth View.

Email
To send the map image to the email address

Choose one of three option and chose between using Microsoft Outlook or using Gmail to send the email

Print
To print the image screenshot to your printer.