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Product Key

Product Key allows you to save your product key code. This is required for license activation and it grants you access to Deep-Sky Planner's online services:

In the Help menu:

▪Check for Updates

In the Community menu

▪Plan Library

▪Equipment Library

▪Browse Community

Once you have entered your product key in this dialog, the online services are enabled for you to use directly from Deep-Sky Planner. Also, after you enter your product key code here, it will be used by Activate License (also on the Help menu) so that you do not have to re-enter it there. Thus, entering your product key code is highly recommended.

If you purchased Deep-Sky Planner by digital download, your product key is in your purchase confirmation e-mail. Knightware recommends that you copy and paste the product key without alteration from the e-mail message.

If you receive an invalid product key error message, the most likely problem is one of:

▪Not enough characters were entered. There should be 29 characters, including the hyphens.

▪An illegal character was entered. Legal characters are 0-9 and A-F. Note that there are no letters 'O' or 'l'; these are sometimes confused for numerals 0 and 1.

This dialog box will appear at program startup until you enter a product key. You can always access this dialog box from the Help menu.

If you change your product key after you have activated your license, you will have to activate the license again.

Press OK to accept the changes, or Cancel to leave Product Key.

What about?

Your product key does not contain any personally identifiable information.

Additional Information:

▪Activation

▪Checking for software updates

▪Browse Community