* Astronomy

DC-3 Dreams, SP announces a new FREE tool for planning observing sessions for astro-imaging and science.

ACP Planner™ (Patent Pending) gives you a visual way to create a night's MULTI-TARGET observing plan WITHIN Starry Night Pro 5 or TheSky 6.
This way of planning is a quantum leap beyond other tools and automation systems because it lets you visualize your target positions and image/filter timing together, making it easy to pick which targets to image at what times and for how long. You get continuous visual feedback of the time slots and gaps.

Though it is geared to ACP owners and remote/web users, ACP Planner can be used with other multi-target automation tools.
It really shines with ACP, though, because there's no need to tell ACP to slew, take images, focus, guide, flip, calibrate, etc.
It's smart enough to figure out what things are needed and when.

For more info, and for the free ACP Planner download, go to the ACP web site at

http://ACP4.DC3.com/

and click one of the ACP Planner links on the main page. If you have a broadband net connection and IE, select "Guided Tour" then sit back and watch as Merlin the Magician gives you a quick animation/voice-guided tour of ACP's features.