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IMAGING PLANNER

kyhound, a purveyor of planning software for amateurs, unveils (starting at US$199.95). The program helps to take the guesswork out of your imaging by calculating the exposure times necessary to adequately expose for a given target also helps you maximise your efficiency by informing you when your target is optimally placed in the sky to image. It can also generate plans that can be directly imported to the popular observatory control program , and it can also generate plans for . automatically keeps track of your progress on astrophotography projects that span multiple nights, including extensive mosaics.

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