What about Desktop Universe? Tried it yet?

No I have not tried it. From what I see on its web site it is regular
ordinary hum drum charting software that adds ccd images of the whole sky.
CCD images of the whole sky is nice and took a lot of work but how do they
help the visual observer or ccd imager? For me I don't like to look at
pictures of objects I am going to observe or have observed because they have
much more detail that can lead to confusion. One thing Desktop universe does
I like is outlines for dark nebula.

With enough computing power I can get Guide or Skytools display all dss over
the whole sky for a third of the cost of Desktop Universe. In short I don't
want to pay $300 for a program that just has charting over a background of
ccd images as its main advantage. I still have to have either Guide or
Skytools to pick up the slack in features Desktop Universe doesn't have.



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