Welcome

Welcome to Deep-Sky Planner Mobile Edition, an app that is designed for use with or without Deep-Sky Planner Desktop Edition for Windows. The differences between Desktop and Mobile Editions are listed below.

Help System

The help system is designed as a reference that is organized like the user interface. The left pane of the window contains a list of help topics. It operates as a drawer panel, meaning that it can be collapsed to expose all of a help topic on the screen. Tap the drawer button (3 dots for Android, 3 lines for iOS) beside Contents to collapse and expand the drawer panel. The drawer is expanded when Help is first shown. It is collapsed automatically when you tap a topic, thereby displaying the topic content.

Support

Support information is available in the Deep-Sky Planner Mobile Edition Support web page. Here you will find links to the knowledgebase, video library, YouTube channel, Facebook & groups.io (user discussion forum) pages.

If you have a general question about Deep-Sky Planner Mobile Edition, you can post it on the Dspme user discussion forum or submit it through the Knightware Contact Us page. If you have a technical problem (bug) to report, please enter a support ticket at the Support Center.

Differences between Deep-Sky Planner Desktop and Mobile

Deep-Sky Planner Desktop Edition is a full-featured planning application while the Mobile Edition provides features related to observing plans as shown below.

Note that only the Desktop Edition supports catalog search reports, asteroid/comet/planet ephemeris reports, and darkness reports.

Feature	DSPDE	DSPME
Operating System	Windows	Android, iOS
Observing Plans
Create	yes
Edit	yes	some
Save	yes	yes
Import from Cloud Storage	OneDrive	Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive
Import from DSP Community (access to 600+ plans and growing!)	yes	yes
Export Plans	yes
Equipment
Create, Edit Save	yes
Import from Cloud Storage	OneDrive	Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive
Import from DSP Community	yes	yes
Locations
Create, Edit Save	yes	yes
Import from Cloud Storage	OneDrive	Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive
Import from DSP Community	yes	yes
Telescope Control	yes
PushTo	yes	yes
Show Chart	yes
Observing Log	yes
Visibility Modeling	yes	‡
DSS Images - download & display	yes	yes

‡ means that this feature is available in DSPME but equipment must be created in the Desktop Edition and imported to DSPME through DSP Community or a Cloud Service.