Announcing Deep-Sky Planner 5 Preview

The time has finally arrived to announce the coming release of Deep-Sky Planner 5. The product is in late beta testing and should be ready to ship in January, 2010.

Deep-Sky Planner 5 has been under development for several years. It is the result of many discussions with visual and imaging observers, extensive research into what observers should record in a log, and it incorporates a number of new technologies. There is much more catalog data (both updated and new), many new features and some nice conveniences. Some features are likely the first of their kind in planning and logging software.

While there are new features and data, you can be assured that the product is still governed by some basic principles - software should be:

1. easy to use
2. accurate
   
3. in this case, compliant with Windows guidelines

The latter is important not only from a usability standpoint, but also as regards security - a topic that is becoming increasingly important for products that provide online services, and those that operate properly with Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Articles outlining the new product will appear in this blog over the coming weeks while Deep-Sky Planner 5 undergoes final testing. These articles should help you get a better understanding of what's coming and when. Be sure to visit the preview page at knightware.biz for more information, and to get a glimpse of the product in action.