Star Charting
Planetarium Program Interoperation
Deep-Sky Planner 5 interoperates with several leading planetarium software products giving you the very best star charting capability available. You can center any supported planetarium product's display on any object reported by Deep-Sky Planner with a mouse click. The 'Show Chart' feature does not require that the reported object be in the database of the planetarium product for the display to move to the object's position.
Deep-Sky Planner verifies that the date, time and geographic location used to compute an object's position matches that in the planetarium program, thereby assuring you that the displayed chart is correct.This is most important for fast moving objects like asteroids, comets and planets. The epoch of the computation is also matched to the model used by the planetarium software, also assuring you of the highest accuracy between products.
Introducing Smart Chart Interoperation™
Deep-Sky Planner 5 introduces smart interoperation features to help make using your favorite planetarium program easier. You can change the field of view setting in your planetarium display when you 'Show Chart' if you wish. The field can be changed to a fixed field of view size, or scaled to a multiple of the size of the object in the report, or scaled to a multiple of the field of view of your current equipment bar selections. You can also elect to minimize Deep-Sky Planner when you 'Show Chart', thereby revealing the planetarium display instantly.
- Cartes du Ciel version 2.76 or version 3, by Patrick Chevalley (free)
- Redshift™ 6 Premium edition or Redshift™ 7 Premium or Compact edition, by Maris Technologies (commercial)
- Starry Night® 6, by Simulation Curriculum (commercial)
Note: Starry Night version 6.3.8 or later is required for the Change FoV interoperation feature to work correctly. - TheSkyX Pro™ and TheSky6™ by Software Bisque (commercial)
You can get an idea of how interoperation works by watching this video demonstrating Deep-Sky Planner 5 and Cartes du Ciel 3.