Is there a "find" for an observing target list? [Answered: Not a feature.]

[theskyhound]

As for a "control-F" to be able to find things in a list, I'm sure it's just a matter of personal preference. It's your design - and you are a genius at so much of it, we are left only to have deep respect for you, Greg. And I mean that. But with the *deepest* respect possible, in a larger list like the Herschel List (which stands on its own for multiple nights), it's a really great feature that I used a lot in AstroPlanner. If you don't want to add it, I'm sure I'll get by without it. But I used it a lot, for whatever that's worth. Just a personal preference. In any event, thanks for the answer.

I get it. People want things to work the way they are used to. But in my (possibly warped) mind there are different tools because they have different intended uses and the different tools are optimized for those different uses. Its usually a bad design to start mixing their use.

The Nightly Planner is not a spreadsheet as it is in other software. It is for comparing and choosing from many objects. The Object Info is a deep dive into a single object. Humor me, and the next time to want to look an object up in your list-for any reason, try looking it up in the Designation Search and then opening the Object Info instead. That may not be what you are used to, but it amounts to the same thing, and I think you will find its actually much more powerful. The Object Info is the most powerful tool in SkyTools, and whenever you have a single object, it not only tells you everything possible about it, but serves as a jumping off point to the other tools.