Planning tools

I expect TheSkyX would do, at a price. C2A does something that might be what you want at no cost:

http://www.astrosurf.com/c2a/english/information.htm

Here's how I do it since I've not found one tool that does all that I need.

Whenever I run across an image I like. I add it to an imaging target spreadsheet I keep. The targets come from AstroBin, S&T, Flipboard (Astronomy) , Instagram, YouTube, or wherever I run across them.

The spreadsheet is organized by month. In the spreadsheet I keep the image designation, name, apparent size, RA/Dec, thumbnail picture, description, transit time, and altitude for the month closest to midnight. I look up info in AstroBin, Wikipedia,  and Starry Night for this. I can casually collect this info prior to my imaging sessions. 

I pick the month to store it under where transit across the meridian is as close to midnight as possible. This way I get both east and west images and maximize the imaging time per night. Since there are 24 hours in a day, and 12 months in a year, I know that the month prior will transit 2 hours later, and the month after will transit 2 hours earlier. This usually gives me a 3 month imaging window for most object.

I copy the spreadsheet to my laptop and iPad. When I go off-grid camping I then have all the info I need to pick targets and telescopes for any given night. I can copy the RA/Dec into SGP and let Plate Solving do the rest.  

Gary

I do find that Stellarium seems to be lacking a bit.. it shows a lot.. but also misses out on a lot.
It will (or might) show a nebula (it's missing a lot of them), but only that nebula, and never the fainter stuff around it, which is just as interesting and is stuff I wish it was easier to plan to get that stuff in my framing. 

many times I'm either googling the number, or looking on here for it, to get a better idea of what a target looks like.
I still use Stellarium to get the best idea of when something is in view and such, but. Yes.. it can lack, and would love to find a better version or plugin or something to get more detailed deep sky information on the targets.

Nice package is CCDCiel with SkyChart and INDI or ASCOM. I use Linux so I prefer INDI.

I find the same as someone previous had mentioned. When I find a target that I want to photograph either from astrobin, telescopius, or flikr, or generally the net. You'll find the rough location added to the image. Log it down and sort by month when it's at its best in the night sky. Pre planning is so important as you can prepare your gear for the nights imaging. Without you will soon lose faith in hobby.

Useless you work for nasa most software will have critics, you just need to find what suits you. I find telescopius useful for the approx Dec, ra Co oridinats. What ever software you use it will probably have framing function which will allow to finalise your imaging for the night.

If I can find there's a list of the top 5000 objects. I used this to look for pictures of the object then I plan my year. 

Clear skies when the sky god let it be

Stellarium is very useful when you enable the DSS survey, which makes it look a lot like telescopius. Without it I find it's hardly usable for finding targets and framing. When you combine the DSS survey on Stellarium with the ability to really crank up the sensitivity on DSO labeling, it becomes a very powerful tool.

I've had good luck with SGP's Framing tool. Also, the sky chart function in NINA usually shows some good stuff.
CS

Stellarium is very useful when you enable the DSS survey, which makes it look a lot like telescopius. Without it I find it's hardly usable for finding targets and framing. When you combine the DSS survey on Stellarium with the ability to really crank up the sensitivity on DSO labeling, it becomes a very powerful tool.

I didn't know about that feature. It does look nice! But dear god it makes Stellarium slow.
I was hoping it was a 1 time load thing, but it seems to be loading parts every time you zoom in, move, which slows Stellarium down a lot, and doesn't make for a very nice user experience. I tried letting it just load and open for a while, in the hopes it would just load everything once, and be done with it forever, but it doesn't seem to be the case?

Am I missing something and is there a way to load it once and have a smooth Stellarium after that?

Unfortunately that is just how it is. I wish there was a way to download the DSS and keep it on the computer, but from what I read it is hard coded to pull from the internet all the time.