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Hi Robin,

I have noticed that one must enter RA / DEC coordinates in the sequence planner in order to program a Go To Target
Hoping the functionality to select the object directly from an embedded database also exists in the sequencer one day, I am wondering which RA / DEC deep sky object data base you'd recommend for me to use as input.

Many thanks.

Cheers,
Eric.

Hi Eric,

the option to select from SharpCap's catalog is present in the 'Deep Sky Sequence Planner' (see https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/4.1/#Target), but not in the full sequence editor. You can start off in the deep sky planner and then transfer the generated plan into the editor for further tweaking.

I will have to investigate whether I can integrate the target selection into the full editor easily (or maybe make a way to copy the co-ordinates from the selected target).

You can use pretty much any online catalog as a source for co-ordinates. I quite often copy/paste co-ordinates from Wikipedia. SharpCap is designed to accept multiple formats of RA/Dec co-ordinates so that pasting in the co-ordinate text should do the job.

cheers,

Robin