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Export Plan to App

▪Astro Photography Tool

▪Cartes du Ciel

▪Deep-Sky Planner Mobile Edition

▪NINA

▪Sequence Generator Pro

▪SkySafari

Export Plan to App allows you to convert Deep-Sky Planner's Observing Plan documents to formats required by several target applications. Deep-Sky Planner currently supports export to:

▪Astro Photography Tool software

▪Cartes du Ciel planetarium software

▪Deep-Sky Planner Mobile Edition software

▪NINA (Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy) software

▪Sequence Generator Pro software

▪SkySafari planetarium software

Export to Astronomy Control Panel includes more options and is decribed here.

Overview

Deep-Sky Planner's Observing Plan documents can be exported to other software formats using the following steps:

1.Select Output File.This is the file and path to which the exported file is written. This file should be imported into the target application. Deep-Sky Planner automatically sets the path to the last folder used for exporting a report or plan. It also selects a default file extension appropriate for the target application. Output File can be changed from the default settings before exporting the file. Simply edit the contents of Output File.

2.Targets pane shows the objects in the plan that will be exported to the selected app.

3.Preview converts the Observing Plan and displays the exported contents in the Exported File Preview pane. A file is not saved.

4.Save converts the Observing Plan and displays the exported contents in the Exported File Preview pane. It also saves the exported content to the file specified by Output File.

Close closes the Export to dialog box.

Help opens this help topic.

Further information follows for each supported application.

Astro Photography Tool (APT)

Exporting a plan to Astro Photography Tool requires APT version 3.30 or later. This conversion places User Designation in the export file if it is present; otherwise, it places Object Designation in the file.

Create an object list for APT using the steps above and import the file as a Custom or ToDo object list in the Objects Browser in APT. You can preview the export file with Deep-Sky Planner before importing it in to APT in the Exported File Preview pane.

To import the Deep-Sky Planner Observing Plan into APT, click the Tools tab, Objects button to open the Objects Browser. Choose the Custom or ToDo tab and click the Import List button to proceed. Choose Import data in APT native format and complete the Open dialog box.

Cartes du Ciel

Exporting a plan to Cartes du Ciel requires CdC version 3.1 or later. This conversion places User Designation in the export file if it is present; otherwise, it places Object Designation in the file. Please see the note below if some objects do not appear in CdC.

Create an Observing Plan for CdC using the steps above and import the file using the Observing list dialog box. You can review the resulting export file before importing it to CdC in the Exported File Preview pane.

Deep-Sky Planner Mobile Edition (DspME)

Create a target list for DspME using the steps above. Transfer the file to DspME using one of the supported Cloud Storage services supported by DspME. Import the file from the Cloud Service into DspME and use as normal.

Sequence Generator Pro (SGP)

Create a target list for SGP using the steps above and import the file using File | Import Targets | Deep-Sky Planner in SGP. This populates targets in an open Sequence.

Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (NINA)

Create a target list for NINA using the steps above and import the file using Import Target on the Simple Sequencer page in NINA. This populates targets in an open Sequence. Only targets with positions precessed to epoch J2000 are exported. (This excludes planets, asteroids and comets which are precessed to JNow.)

Sequence Generator Pro (SGP)

Create a target list for SGP using the steps above and import the file using File | Import Targets | Deep-Sky Planner in SGP. This populates targets in an open Sequence.

SkySafari

Exporting a plan to SkySafari requires version 3 or later. The conversion places User Designation in the export file if it is present; otherwise, it places Object Designation in the file. Please see the note below if some objects do not appear in SkySafari.

Create an observing list for SkySafari using the steps above and import the file into SkySafari using a method described in the Sky Safari User's Manual. Methods vary for iOS and Android versions. You can review the resulting export file before transmitting it to SkySafari in the Exported File Preview pane.

Additional Information

Note that an export file created by Deep-Sky Planner may have object designations in it that are not recognized by the target application. This is especially true for SkySafari. In this case, you can open the plan file in Deep-Sky Planner and change the Object (User) designation to match that required by the target application. Save the changes to the plan and export it again