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Community - Equipment Library

The Deep-Sky Planner Community on the Knightware web site holds resources that you can use with Deep-Sky Planner, including the Equipment Library. This Library contains lists of equipment (organized by manufacturer or by equipment type) that you can download and import into your Deep-Sky Planner database. You request a list of available resources from the Library and view or save the desired resource list.

The list of available resources (equipment lists) is retrieved when the Equipment Library dialog box is opened. You can also retrieve the list of resources again by clicking Refresh List of Items. Once the list of resources is retrieved and displayed, you can choose one or more resources for downloading and viewing or storing. You can scroll through the items, sort the list by clicking in a column heading, and resize the Equipment Library dialog box.

For any equipment list item, you can:

▪Click View in the item's row to download and display it in a preview window.

▪Click Get in the item's row to download and store it in your Deep-Sky Planner 9 documents folder. If you installed for Single User as recommended, this should be like C:\Users\<user account>\Documents\Deep-Sky Planner 9\Community\. Use Import in the appropriate Equipment Browser to import items in the stored equipment list file into your Deep-Sky Planner database.

The Statusbar on the dialog box shows the status of your request. If it fails, an error message explaining the failure is displayed.

What about?

You can browse all resources in the Community with your web browser by using Community | Browse Community.

An item in an equipment file must be imported into the Deep-Sky Planner database to be available for use. Use the Equipment Browser appropriate for the type of equipment (e.g., camera, eyepiece) in the list to Import an item into the database.