Astrophotography Planning Calendars

A ton of new things have landed in the v4 preview in the last couple of weeks.

In particular, I wanted to point out the new Celestial Target page that includes a comprehensive, searchable database of celestial targets for astrophotographers, and especially for nightscape, deepscape or astro-landscape folks.

You can get annual visibility calendars for your exact observing location for hundreds of targets at a time in just seconds, with filtering for condition (min alt, moon alt/illumination/separation) and even az/alt window constraints:

A huge thank-you to @whitacre.rick for his help and inspiration in developing this new functionality – there’s a lot more to it, but we’ll start with showing just this for now!

I’ll set up a live-stream in the coming days to go through it in more detail. For now, feel free to drop any questions here.

Thanks, Stephen!! Amazing tools for Astro and Deepscapes! Can’t wait for the rollout. I really appreciate you doing this for us