Using Deep-Sky Planner 7 with Starry Night
This article describes some recommendations for using Deep-Sky Planner 7 with Starry Night 6, 7 and 8 on Windows 7, 8, or 10 (32 or 64 bit).
- Starry Night Enthusiast or higher edition is required for the Show Chart interoperation feature to work in Deep-Sky Planner 7.
- Deep-Sky Planner communicates with Starry Night through a plug-in that ships with Deep-Sky Planner. You can choose to copy this plug-in into Starry Night 6 or 7 Pro and Pro Plus installations when Deep-Sky Planner is installed. You can also do a manual installation of the plug-in If you do not copy the plug-in into your Starry Night installation when you install Deep-Sky Planner. Note: Starry Night 8 users must do a manual installation of the plug-in at this time.
Manual Plug-in Installation
- The default location for Starry Night 6, 7 or 8 installations is one of the following. Substitute your Starry Night major version number (6 7 or 8) for #.
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Starry Night Pro Plus #\Sky Data\Plug-ins (on 64-bit Windows)
- C:\Program Files\Starry Night Pro Plus #\Sky Data\Plug-ins for (on 32- bit Windows)
- Locate the DsSN70.plug file in your Deep-Sky Planner 7 installation. If you installed Deep-Sky Planner with the recommended settings, this should be C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Knightware\Deep-Sky Planner 7\DsSN70.plug where <username> is your Windows user account name. Copy SN70.plug to your Starry Night plug-ins folder as described above.
- If you use Starry Night 8 (actually 7.6.4.1436 or later) change the name of the Deep-Sky Planner 7 plug-in in the Starry Night plug-ins folder from DsSN70.plug to DsSN70_Win32.plug
- Run Starry Night with 'Run as Administrator' option on Windows 7, 8 or 10.
- Run Deep-Sky Planner 7 with 'Run as Administrator' option on Windows 7, 8 or 10.
Always start Starry Night before attempting a Show Chart command in Deep-Sky Planner. Program interoperation requires elevated runtime privileges. If you have problems connecting to Starry Night from Deep-Sky Planner, the problem is most likely one of the following:
- Starry Night is not running
- Starry Night did not load the Deep-Sky Planner plug-in. Check Help | About Plug-in | Deep-Sky Planner and verify that you are running the plug-in for Deep-Sky Planner 7 If this menu item does not appear, Starry Night has not loaded the plug-in successfully. Did you rename the plug-in for Starry Night 8?
- Starry Night is not running as administrator
- Deep-Sky Planner is not running as adminstrator
Deep-Sky Planner 7 has been tested with Starry Night 8.x, 7.x Pro Plus