John writes:
I've found several planners around when googling, I think its up to them to find interoperability, not just the one of your choice, seeing as each beast will do things differently, and planners are useless without GOTOs or charts, but charting programs can be geared up to telescope pointing kit and plot charts. Can't deep sky planner point telescopes directly via this ascom code or something anyway, like other software does? Do you even need a charting proggie?

It does use ascom for telescope communication and gotos ... but for those of us who still like to find things on our own and not rely on the computer to point my scope for me. I use charts!