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Interesting tool, would probably be super useful if I had more knowledge of the things floating around out there. I'm usually just concerned with photographing the galactic core on dark nights. I didn't have enough domain knowledge to figure that out with this tool though. I use PhotoPils on my iOS devices for astrophotography planning and that works great for my limited level of knowledge.
If you're the author or if anyone knows a program that can do this, it would be great to have a way to take a photoshphere or a 360 degree pano and see what is actually viewable from a particular location.

I've done this in stellarium to some degree but i am still not very happy with it because I still can't quite get an accurate estimate without a tremendous amount of manual work, so someone actually actively working on this would be amazing.