planatarium software

[adaregazer (Graham)]

Hi folks. Done some research and want software for charting, planning and T control. Have come up with deep sky 2000 $70 delivered. Second place was Aussie star atlas pro but a little expensive at $135. Any thoughts. I have windows 7.

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

Which mount are you using?
I have Astroplanner V2 for planning etc. and Cartes du Ceil for planetarium/ GOTO via EQMod on a NEQ6.

[Occulta (Chris)]

For me C2A is the one.

Free;
The ability to load the following catalogues:
SAO
USNO-A & B
Tycho-2
Hipparcos
UCAC1 thru UCAC4
Guide Star Catalogue
NOMAD
PPMXL
CMC15, plus others;

Planning and scheduling;
Drift Analysis;
Observatory Control;
Imaging tools;

ASCOM compliant

And very easy to use.

And did I mention it's free

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Pretty much agree with both Chris and Ken.

CdC can have more catalogs than you can poke a stick added, including the ones Chris listed under C2A as well as NOMAD.

If you wanted to run on Linux then CdC is also INDI compatible.

[adaregazer (Graham)]

Thanks guys - I did look at C2A but will look at it again with a view to saving me some cash!

[sutekh (M)]

Cartes du Ciel in Distro Astro 3.0 includes a catalogue of a million DSO's.
And the cost is $70 less than DS2000.

-- sutekh

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Originally Posted by sutekh

Cartes du Ciel in Distro Astro 3.0 includes a catalogue of a million DSO's.
And the cost is $70 less than DS2000.

-- sutekh

I use CdC as well. All my software on my observatory is free except camera control (12euros).