Astro Coverage — 41 targets, 683.2h

Astro Coverage Planner 41 targets · 683.2h · scan 2026-11-15

Settings

Projection: Frame: Sky: Site:

Plans

keys: object · filter · telescope · camera · fov>N · fov<N · hours>N · hours<N

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What can ACP do?

See your library

The sky map draws every field you have imaged, and clicking one opens its detail.
Targets on the rail lists your library with hours per filter, and its search box takes names or key:value terms.

Narrow the view

Filters on the rail chooses filters, telescopes, minimum hours and finished or unfinished targets.

Find new targets

The Sky menu in the top bar swaps the background survey, and More surveys searches every survey Aladin offers.
Library on the rail holds catalogue overlays, public survey footprints and the gap finder.

Plan

The Planning switch in the top bar opens your plans, where you frame a target, set mosaics and set filter goals.
Edit gear in the plan list holds your telescopes, cameras, filters and exposure templates.

Time and site

The Site menu in the top bar sets where you observe from.
Time-aware in the top bar adds visibility curves, a best tonight sort and horizon lines for that site.

Send to NINA

With the ACP NINA plugin, its dock in NINA's Imaging tab pushes plans to Framing or writes them into Target Scheduler.
Without the plugin, Manual Sync to NINA in the plan list exports your plans as a zip for Target Scheduler to import.
Live progress needs plugin 3.3 or later. The plugin reports captured frames to ACP, so plan hours update with no extra setup.

Follow up

Activity on the rail shows what happened each night and what needs you.
Scan health under Library lists problems the last library scan found.

Set up outside the app

Your image folders and library scans are on the Settings page. Scans on a schedule run from the command line, see setting up your archive.
A friend's coverage loads as a layer through a setting. See sharing coverage.

Keyboard and mouse

Right-click a field on the map, or a row in the list, for its menu.
Click the same spot again to step through fields that overlap.
Esc, or a click on empty sky, goes back one level in the panel.
With a plan open, drag its centre marker to move it or its corner handle to rotate it.
Press ? to open this panel.

ACP version 1.2.1