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First of all, you'll need a memory card to deploy the program. This release uses 25MB of data, so if you phone does not have as much, do not bother to download. Otherwise, you'll most probably have a memory card.
To install the program:
1. Create a folder(further referred to as <FOLDER>) on your memory card and put the extracted contents of deployed.zip in it.
2. Create a "data" subfolder of the <FOLDER> and put the extracted contents of the data.zip inside.
3. Run the program
4. From the main menu, select "Settings->Advanced" and input the right memory card install folder(replace .../jTelescope/ with .../<FOLDER>/ )
5. Go back to the main menu and select "gen. Star data". As the midlet is not signed, you'll be asked about 157 times for confirmation to allow the midlet access to its own data inside the data folder. This will transform the star data files into record stores that do not need confirmation to be accessed during midlet operation.
6. Go back to the main menu and select "gen. DSO data". Another 4 confirmartions will be needed. This transforms the NGC and IC catalogs data.
7. Go back to the main menu and select "gen. Catalog". Another confirmartion that will create a catalog of coordinates to record store number(or data folder file) for faster loading during operation.
8. Go back and select Run w/ RMS. The record stores have to be created only once. after that you can delete the data folder to free space on your MC.

Note that the program is as simple as possible and does not render solar system objects nor it calcultes the current horizon from a specified location. What it does is to render 2.5 million stars and about 13k DSOs in dark red color based on an aim point.

Conrolling the star screen:
phone direction keys - move the aim point around the sky
1 - zoom out
2 - show/hide DSOs
3- zoom in
4 - show less stars(.5 magnitude step)
5- show/hide constellation lines
6 - show more stars
7 - show less DSOs(.5 magnitude step)
8 - Show information about the nearest DSO rendered on the screen
9 - show more DSOs
0 - show/hide finder circles
# - start code punching:
	code starting with * followed by a number - find the messier object with that number (punching #*51# finds M51)
	code starting with # followed by a number - IC number (##51# finds IC51)
	direct number input			  - NGC number (#7000# finds NGC7000)
Source: README, updated 2011-05-17