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Originally Posted by Sentinel
I have been very impressed with Astroplanner. What is the major issue you have with it, in regards to logging?
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Up until now it's been the inability to link pictures (CCD images or sketches) to specific observations. However I've just learned yesterday that the latest beta (1.5.9a) allows this. The search and reporting functions for observations and the ability to customise one's observing input or display still don't seem to be anything like as powerful as programs such as 'Skytools' and 'Deepsky'.
At the moment Astroplanner doesn't have the ability to input information about a whole observing session and then refer back to it. What would be nice is the ability to only to have to input the time and date, seeing, transparency etc only once per session. I understand this will be coming in version 2 due out next year. It would also be cool if I could input information about non-catalogued observations such as meteor showers, satellite passes, atmospheric phenomena etc. I understand that there is a work around of creating these 'objects' in each plan, but this is not ideal.
Apart from finder chart production, Astroplanner seems to be every bit as good as these programs and in many areas better. What I love about Astroplanner is the amazing technical support.
In the end I may chose to stick with Astroplanner, but if I'm going to have to shell out for the upgrade to version 2, I might as well take the opportunity to see what else is out there.