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Old 23-02-2016, 06:24 AM
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Not to my knowledge. I think Observation Manager which I tried a while back, clever but complex can be setup with a sky feild view using a graphic and 'blocks' of dark to cover areas to NSEW but it's a guessitimate on your part, not automatic. I set it up with 80* blocks to my East and 35* to Nth with 25* to the Sth, 30* to the west but nowa days I just know when a target will come into my feild of view either later at night\morning or later in the year.
Eg I am waiting for the Virgo group to do some galaxy group imaging but it will be another 2-3 months before that rises at a civilised time for me to image and clears the trees. I'm still working so a.m. sessions after midnight aren't really an option. I just use Stellarium and it's clock feature to predict what and when.

I think my only advantage is having a good South view to the SCP so at some time in the year most things will pass overhead. My biggest loss is North at only 40* or so. Means Andromeda (M31) and targets that way are not viewable but the Southern sky has more to see anyway.

You make the best with what you've got. I suggest you learn the sky more, Stellarium helps a lot and you'll find you don't need all the apps and software\hardware to know what you can see on a particular night.

UPDATE: AstroPlanner is the software I used, not Observation Manager

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