Hi all,
I'm sorry if this was already answered or if this is not the right subforum, but I haven't found a satisfactory answer anywehre.
I'm looking for a catalogue of DSO objects which would allow me to browse and filter by
- size
- position - not sure how this filter would exactly work. It can be something like "visible from this place at this day" or "within X constellation" or something else.
- (nice to have) type (at least nebula vs galaxy vs star cluster)
- (nice to have) brightness
My goal is to find a helper tool for session planning. I'm planning a trip to dark skies in a while, I'd like to choose in advance what objects I'll be imaging. I also need to decide what equipment to take with me.
I know it's more complex than just the things I mentioned, but that would help greatly for "candidate picking". I already some ideas but it's very likely that I'm missing something that would suit me perfectly. I have been using stellatium to figure stuff out but it's very suboptimal for this. I can input the time and location and then randomly look at stuff showing up, but that's not a very sustainable way.
any suggestions (even if they don't fullfill all the "requirements") are welcome!
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NINA Sky atlas is exactly what you need based on this write up. You can select type of object, size, coordinates, altitude at a time of your choosing, magnitude etc etc… Basically you can put any filter you can think of and see only those objects in the list.
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Awesome, thanks! I haven't used N.I.N.A for a while since I switched to Asiair for portability. Sounds like I should revisit at least for planning purposes! I'll definitely give it a spin
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Good day, Jan. Gary Imm has a Deep Sky Compendium spreadsheet to help astrophotographers find interesting deep sky targets. The Compendium is a free download and requires Excel (Mac or WIndows) to run. The Compendium provides technical data on over 3100 unique deep sky objects in the entire sky, both northern and southern hemispheres. Low resolution Images are shown for all of these objects, with links to high resolution images for most of the objects. All objects are cross-referenced to 26 catalogues. https://www.garyimm.com/compendium |
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***** Five star rating for Gary Imm's Compendium. It's an Excel spreadsheet with phenominal data for planning. Just started using it.
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If I remember right, ASIAIR has a very nice search function which should give you similar results to NINA. Not as deep, but great for a high level overview.
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Rick Krejci:
If I remember right, ASIAIR has a very nice search function which should give you similar results to NINA. Not as deep, but great for a high level overview. Asiair is really great if you are this position where you set up your scope, everything is good to go and then you're "wait, what am i doing here?". And I agree with that. However I don't consider it useful for planning
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Jan Ossowski:
Rick Krejci:
If I remember right, ASIAIR has a very nice search function which should give you similar results to NINA. Not as deep, but great for a high level overview.
Asiair is really great if you are this position where you set up your scope, everything is good to go and then you're "wait, what am i doing here?".
And I agree with that.
However I don't consider it useful for planning I used to use it for planning during the day, so I’m not sure what limitation is for you. I did jump to Nina since I went for an AP mount which didn’t play well with Asiair
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Another option is Astroplanner. It is a bit of a learning curve to get started, but once you understand the architecture, it is fantastic. It contains some 140 or so databases of objects, it is completely customisable and you can select any possible search/ranking criteria you like, including an 'observability' assessment, based on location, moon phase/distance, skyline, etc. You can also use it to record your observations, with conditions, equipment, notes, etc. I have all my imaging information stored in it and use exports for imaging reports on my website. It is available for both MacOS and Windows.
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Already mentioned, but Gary Imm’s Compendium is an incredible effort, and it’s set up to sort/filter in any way you want. Another option is the What’s in my Sky script from SetiAstro. A really great feature is when you click on any object in the generated list, it links to an Astrobin gallery search for that object.
Cheers,
Scott
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I also use Gary Imm's compendium tool. I really like the links to his AB photos. However, while I find it really useful, it also must be said that it does require some 'more-than-beginner' knowledge of how to use Excel in order to be comfortable with it.
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Gary Imm's book is superb and will keep you busy for years.
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