Cuiv, a great video and lots of good information. I will add that when I first used ASTAP it immediately failed. It gave me an error saying it couldn't find the G17database. I went back to the ASTAP website, downloaded te G17 installer, installed it and all was well.
Yesterday I spent about 2 hours trying to make my iOptron GEM45EC work via ASCOM with Stellarium. The iOptron Commander just quit and crashed I had no idea why (looks like there are bugs in new version of it or Stellarium). I tried a different cable, I re-installed the drivers for it... then I decided to follow this tutorial by Cuiv (luckily I had ASTAP installed and used it in NINA for the manual platesolving), then !Magic! NINA worked well with my mount and just slewed it to the right location (I had NoSync turned OFF) - I have got an absolute catharsis after all that pain with Stellarium. NINA is a software we trust! Thank you, Cuiv for this short tutorial and for the promotion of this wonderful piece of software. I wish it stability and buglessness! Thank you, again, Cuiv!
Mate! Thank you so much for all your videos! They've been such a help. You are very thorough and don't leave any details out. Perfect for someone like me who needs every bit of information.
Cuiv, this is a great video with a LOT of good information. I always have had issues with platesolving (since I was using SGP) and this video helped me identify and understand a few parameters that I had wrong. BUT..."the cherry on top of the icing" was that you helped me understand why I was never able to perform an auto meridian flip sucessfuly. I always saw (with great dispair) how the mount and the software (SGP, NINA) were kind of "fighting each other" and the mount never settled after the flip. Even though it was not the main topic of this video, you pointed out how the Automatic Sync parameter was added to address issues with mounts that were "fighting" against the sync commands from NINA, which was exactly the issue I was having. Once I turned the Automatic Sync "Off" the mount did its first successful meridian flip completely automated!!!! Thank you for your wonderful videos. They are on the top of my TH-cam channel subscription list.
You are fast becoming my main youtube go-to (no pun intended) for any astrophotography related stuff. Please keep up the great work! Now I have to wait for clear skies to implement plate-solving :D
This is so helpful. I wasted so much time trying to figure out plate solving and wondering why it did not work when I was using NINA. Thank you! Your channel is the best.
Hello Cuiv, I just want to thank you as well for the great content you put into your videos. I am learning quite a bit too, just as Dave Kemp noted. Keep up the great work and just know it's not going un-noticed. Clear Skies and God Bless you..
Plate-solving is a complete game changer - no need to babysit the scope anymore, it can just find its own way among the stars. It removes a lot of frustration! I am so jealous of your remote observatory! Where is it located?
Cuiv, Lazy Geek in Japan Well not in the most ideal conditions, but it’s in my parents garden, so free access to WiFi, power and land! It’s in The Netherlands in a bortle 4 location. Shooting from Tokyo must be a massive challenge! I’ve been a few times, cool city though. So you travel out to a darkside much?
Hello from Colorado. Thank you for the great videos. I've been wanting to use NINA since I first heard and saw the software. But it didn't support my EOS Ra so I got me an ASI Air pro and a ASI 294 MC Pro and that took care of me over the summer. But I thought I would just check on the latest nightly build to see if they finally had the EOS Ra and the CR3 Raw Format included and to my surprise it was. So I have been using NINA and my new Canon EOS Ra and I love the full frame image that NINA shows. Really shows of the Vignette of my WO GT102. The 294MC pro has the cropped 4/3 sensor and I could see the Vignette, but it was small. Until I looked at a full frame image. But I will say it is quite well centered in the frame. And I'm sure Flats will correct as they always do. Keep up the good Video's. Especially on NINA. I've got the simple sequence down. But still learning. ;o)
I'm learning so much from your videos, as a beginner I find them so easy to understand and follow and you explain everything so well. I really appreciate the time and effort you take in creating these videos. Awesome work Cuiv!
Tanks a lot for another very informative and well done video!!! Thank for the information about sync near the meridian with eq-mode, I di not know that and I know now why I was having problems one night plat solving!
Another great video, again learned a few things. I really like the detail you get into. For example I did not know that the ASCOM type mount (mine is an Atlas EQ-G) didn't like Syncing close to the meridian. Keep going with your videos!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for these videos. I recently switched to NINA from APT. All I have to say is wow! What a difference. For the autofocusing and mosaic capabilities alone, I'm in love with this software. It doesn't hurt that I've also been an open source developer, so those decisions are dear to my heart. I have a lot to learn in the AP space, but I do hope to contribute code to the project at some point in the future!
Yesterday I had my first debut under the sky with the new camera Tauptek 571 and NINA - it was a shame to my gray head)) But I'm glad about it. I worked in NINA for the first time and just stumbled at the plate solve stage. Now I'm going back to your school. Question: Is there a live view mode in NINA? It is a torment to jump from program to program in order to sharpen the Bakhtinov mask. I have a simple electro focuser, not auto focus.
Hi Cuiv. I have converted!! I ran N.I.N.A. last night for the first time other than trials setting up gear. It worked really well although I need to tweak my autofocus settings a little. Only issue was the centering. It plate solved after the first slew but when centering the target stars were streaked slightly. You mentioned a settle time in your video. Where do I set that please? Thanks for all the videos so far. Without them I doubt I would have switched. Clear skies.
Woohoo! Welcome to the wonderful world of NINA! As for the plate solve, ASTAP is indeed very particular about star shapes. For the settle time, you have one for the first plate solve after meridian flip, and one after each slew. I think I have both set to 15 seconds. Number 11 here nighttime-imaging.eu/docs/develop/site/tabs/options/imaging/ and number 7 here nighttime-imaging.eu/docs/develop/site/tabs/options/equipment/ . Good luck!
Cuiv, The Lazy Geek Thank you. I’m still finding my way around but getting there. I had set the settle time to 10 secs. but don’t remember doing it! I’ve increased to 15 now. Maybe it was a gust of wind that caught the scope as it’s an SCT with a big heated dew shield. I’m going to try sorting the focus settings tonight using your videos to help. The overshoot feature looks good for avoiding mirror flop issues. Keep the videos coming please but my wife has requested you stop showing new gear like the little sharp star scope! - ignore her.😀
Thanks Cuiv. There are two places to set binning. Either at the camera menu or in the plate solve menu. To prevent binning twice, I would suggest set the ASTAP solving binning at 0 =auto
LOVE the video. I am using NINA but I think this will let me take it to the next level. Maybe I can stop using CPWI. I am still using Sharpcap for PA coz that seems to work really well.
Cuiv thank you for your great videos! Question is why does Nina always ask me to confirm my focal length which is set to 400 when plate solving? I am usually awake during my imaging sessions but if I set up a flip or changed targets overnight and it tried to solve would it just sit there and wait for me to confirm this pop up window even though it is already set in the settings and equipment ? Thanks
Hi Cuiv, it's a long time since you recorded this. I really like your videos as I am learnning astrophotography besides my visual addiction to large dobsonian (Obsession UC22 under dark skies) and I have a question for you. I see in your videos that you can use the manual handpad of Eqmod after connecting NINA to your scope. For me it is impossible once I have launched NINA and connected it to the scope (EQ6R USB direct) whereas it works before doing that directly with Eqmod. Once NINA is connected, I have to use the hand control within NINA. Is it related to the evolution of NINA (I use the latest version used as of january 2023) or can you still control manually your mount with EQMOD after lauchning NINA and connecting it to your mount? Thanks in advance if you find time to answer. Frederic
I have followed your method for plate solving and I kept getting the error Not Enogh Stars. I am Trying to do 3 star polar alignment first then I get this error. I have also went to night sky picked M42 and slewed to the region again once I plate sove the not enough stars error pops up. Any help advice would be great and appreciated
My solved DSOs are usually off centre. I understand the principles behind it. But it's almost as if the coordinates of the registered centre of a given DSO within the star database / sky coordinates is not the visual centre for AP purposes. I'm using ASTAP in NINA and its very fast but I have to manually recentre most objects. I'm using an Ioptron CEM40 and the GOTO is usually one degree off which is acceptable.... Would changing my Epoch make a difference? Also, I noticed that the centre of some objects in Stellarium are also off centre in exactly the same manner. I'm wondering / betting that a very small DSO would be better centred due to it not having a large vague nebulous area around it.
Basically if u am doing blind solving. I just remember location of target. Remember coordinates and turn my mount to the target. But it would be accurately pointed 👉 👈 to target. But I do use phd2 and phd2 is good for find ur target!
At 8:45. Unless I missed it both times, I don't see where you tell people to download the START DATABASE from the ASTAP web page. I kept getting an error "astap error: no start database found! Download and install one star database" (those files get put into the folder where the astap exe is located).
I know this is a three year old video, but it's an issue I am currently trying to understand. I am using NINA with EQMOD. I have my telescope and SkyWatcher EQ6R mount on a permanent pier in an observatory, so it rarely moves and I rarely ever bother with a polar or three point alignment. But at startup I do an initial plate solve and try to sync it. Frequently, that results in an error message stating NINA could not sync the data. (The telescope is usually pointing near Polaris at that time since it's where I park it). So, if I understand correctly, I can go ahead and slew to target because the error report is just a harmless quirk in EQMOD and NINA can still navigate the telescope correctly? What you just said at 15:05--if sync in the Options: Telescope section is set to on, NINA might not have trouble with sync when doing a plate solve from the Image tab option--I think that may have resolved the concern.
If you're using ASTAP, under options->platesolving there is a downsample option, set it to 2, or even 4. If the option isn't there, you can set the platesolving binning to 2 or 4.
Do you have a good recommendation to get started with a similar setup. I am thinking about purchashing a small star tracker, and im wondering if your type of setup would be better with calculations?
Hey Mate..need some help on setting up the Astap. I can't get NINA to talk to it. I have downloaded the program and star data base, directed Nina to its address in program files and then nothing happens. Have I missed a step? I don't see an .exe anywhere either. Thanks in advance....so far loving Nina and your vids.
Very difficult to say - so you downloaded and installed both ASTAP and the G17 star data base, but you don't see an exe file under C:\Program Files\astap\astap.exe ? Do you have any antivirus software running? You may want to disable it if you do.
Great instructional video for a newbie. Thanks. A question,if that's ok. Using NINA with my zwo (new) cooled camera, 102mm refractor 571mm,with flattener/reducer F 5.6. When I look at live view or view the captured image on my laptop screen it is a blurry background,green black. The stars are sharp enough and it will plate solve. It just doesn't look like anyone else's NINA screen on TH-cam. Have played with the exposures and gain,nothing works. I don't have an autofocuser. Great clear skies, here in Valencia. Any thoughts ? Many thanks.
@CuivTheLazyGeek Been living in hope all day about turning on this feature and seeing a clear image. But,Nada. Guess you mean the magic wand type icon next to the star( auto star detection) . Thanks anyway
Hello Cuiv, great tutorial, actually excellent, I have a question, where I can download the files that you are using in this video, I need to have some in my hard disk since I will be out in the field with no internet to download from NASA, thank you so much!!!
If you're talking about ASTAP and its catalog, they are here: www.hnsky.org/astap.htm , and you would need the G17 catalog - I hope that answers what you were asking!
@@CuivTheLazyGeek Indeed I´ve got that, but when you click in files so you can use a local image is my issue I just can´t find any image I can use NINA keeps telling me that is too large or to small an image and an error appears; I´ve tried making the FOV larger but is the same. You say that you are a lay geek but man, your knowledge is amazing!!!!
Son of gun Cuiv I think you might have solved an intermittent problem I have been having. My Plate -solving rarely works the first time and sometimes not even the second time. I think it may be the sync to mount button may be the culprit. It has been particularly irritating because I had it set for two attempts then a 3 min interval for the second go through. PS. I did upgrade to the Beta N.I.N.A. but I am still using the baby sequencer. I really don't see any need for the Advanced sequencer yet. - Cheers Kurt
Cuiv. Im having problems platesolving near the NCP after the flip. Tracking from NE to NW. The target is not reliably framed as it previously was. Either completely off or slightly off but enough to create ugly borders in the integrated image. Had it set to 10 minutes past the meridian. Should I increase this to 15? Also the pointing tolerance was 1 arc min. Should this be lowered as well? Please help! Thank you!
Hi, great video again. Please tell me your opinion about plate solving using a small guide scope. I want to use the three points polar alignment of NINA which works using ASTAP plate solving. I have an ASI 224MC planetary camera. You think it would be possible to plate solve using a small guide scope like the ZWO 30mm f/4 and 120mm focal length?
Thank you Cuiv. So did you use the scope's co-ordinates for plate solving or the selected target as you didn't show the sequence screen again after selecting the needle galaxy. Does that update automatically after selecting the target and overides the plate solving screen?
this is going to seem a crazy question but in NINA (which i am new with) when there is an ON/OFF button , if the button is highlighted ON, does that mean the button is ON or that I should select to be ON, dumb question but just need confirmation.
Oooh this is actually a very good question! So if the button text says "On" it means it currently is ON. If it says "Off" it means it currently is OFF. I hope this helps! It's not a stupid question, I'm still confused to this day about switches with I and 0 written on them :)
Thanks Cuiv, another excellent video. This is a real novice question, but which platesolvers require you to be online when you solve? I need to travel out of internet range to image, so any platesolving data needs to be on my local drive.
I have ASTAP installed in the right directory, yet when I try to plate solve in NINA, it says "No star database found at C|Program Files|astap; Download the h18 and install." But I did that already. Astap.exe is in that directory, along with a bunch of numbered files. What the heck happened? It worked previously with a different set-up. Could too few stars captured by the camera give such an error?
Wow 😯.... just a fantastic video mate! Thanks for sharing... truly impressive the way you explain every detail... quick question? Can you plate solve from an image from a previous session? So you can capture data over multiple nights?? Thanks
Good news, yes you can! Two ways: - Save your sequence, including target coordinates, before closing NINA, and reopen it the next night - In the framing wizard, open an image from the previous session (using the "File" image source)
Cuiv, The Lazy Geek Hi mate... awesome, just got my first mono camera and it is likely that I will have to collect different channels/filters over multiple nights. Thanks for your response. Clear skies 🌌
Interesting Quiv, but one thing I'm missing here, don't I need to download one of the database catalogs on the ASTAP site ?? And if so, which one do I need H17 or H18 ?
Thank you! I am a SGP user who has many questions. 1- is the G17 catalog good for any field of view or is there different catalogs to get for the different telescopes one can own? 2- Does NINA show the frame that is platesolved in the image window? It is nice to know if you are getting closer visually. 3- Once the image is centered with ASTAP, is there a " center here instead" functionality to change the framing before starting to image? 4- If the center of the frame is changed as in #3, can that change be saved in NINA for another imaging session on the same target but a different filter? Thank you again.
Welcome to the dark side Ha El :) 1. If you have an SCT, you may want to go for the G18 catalog - but otherwise, G17 should work for most focal lengths 2. Yes, the platesolved image is in the image window, so you can check it visually 3. Not really a center here instead function - you'd need to go back to the framing wizard. Doable, but less convenient. 4. Yes, just add the new center as new sequence target, then save the sequence!
Welcome to the field of AP! You have a long but fun (and sometimes frustrating!) road ahead of you! You are correct, I never bother to do a star alignment. Actually as part of the plate-solving, NINA typically sends a Sync command to the mount - which is the same thing as doing a star alignment! So just plate-solve near your target and you should be fine. Good luck and clear skies!
Cuiv, if I have EQMOD and Nina set to use the JNOW epoch, then do I still need to set the target coordinates in the Sequence tab using J2000? If I use the Sky Atlas to set a sequence target, then will it use JNOW or J2000 coordinates? Won't this cause confusion between EQMOD and Nina?
J2000 is usually the reference for targets, but never fear, NINA converts to what the mount expects (e.g. JNOW for your), if the setting under options -> general -> astrometry is set properly (although the proper epoch may now be taken from the mount directly, so that setting may no longer exist - not in front of computer)
I’ve been a subscriber since early on and your videos have been instrumental getting my setup operational with NINA. Two days ago I installed the latest beta update to NINA and found some of my specific references to location files and keys on my laptop were gone and had to be reestablished. For example, I had to redo the plate solving set up, the color scheme and a few others. Is there a way to save these settings as a sidecar file somewhere and then reload it into a new version? This was a real pain to look up, reestablish these settings up again and get everything working again. Thanks again for your time and effort putting these videos together. We appreciate it!
I haven't used the Beta version yet (not since 1.10 came out!), but typically what you describe is linked to an instance of NINA not being closed properly, and launching a second one. The second instance will not have access to your usual profile. I assume you now have several profiles in the Options General tab because of that. The solution is simply to kill all NINA processes (or rebooting) before launching NINA again.
@@CuivTheLazyGeek Thanks. That is what I did. The icon notice in the upper right of NINA indicated a new version and I downloaded it without closing NINA--at least that's what I recall doing! If that is indeed the case a warning to close the current version before downloading seems like it might be in order. Again, Cuiv, I believe that's what I did. BTW, we point folks in our astronomy club to your videos on NINA. We haven't come across a clearer, more practical presentation. Looking forward to you crossing the 10,000 subscriber club!
Mmmh, which version of NINA are you using? 1.10 should get decent photos from the NASA Sky Survey. If you still get issues, I'd recommend asking directly on the NINA Discord channel here: discord.gg/fwpmHU4 . Hope you manage to set it up properly!
@@CuivTheLazyGeek I'm using the latest beta, downloaded it yesterday. I'll ask on discord, thank you! I'm not giving up. 18 more subscribers!!!!! Almost there!
Salut Cuiv. I've got many issues. I avoid to depend on only 1 system. I have ASIAIRPRO which works great. No issues. Now I have started to set up another rig with NINA. My mount is the HEQ5 pro. So EQMOD is ok. All connections ok as well as sync with stellarium. My issues...after polar aliment,my mount slews v very far from targets through I tried to troubleshoot. My guiding calibration fails. Either the star movement is too low or calibration steps too low. I am getting crazy with this. Can you please help? All prior steps are good...lat, longitude, hemisphere, timezone. And polar alignment with less than 5 min total error
Sorry Jean, I never had such issues, and it's hard to diagnose... There is definitely something wrong in your settings somewhere (but I haven't used EQMOD in a long time, I use GSS). You really want to join the NINA Discord and ask there if you need support!!
ASTAP solves instantaneously for me, never an issue. This seems to be another symptom of a wrong setting somewhere - you need to join the NINA Discord!
Yes I should have specifically mentioned that! Astrometry.net may not be fast, but it is extremely robust - it works with almost any image! ASTAP is a bit more demanding about star shapes...
Awesome video as always, Cuiv. Can you use the telescope after you first setup (and after polar aligning the mount) to plate solve and feed those coordinates back to the mount? Then every slew after that should be more accurate?
The Platesolving syncs the coords to the mount in the first place, so effectively they are fed to the mount and every slew (in the vicinity of the object) afterwards is more accurate - it's an automatic side effect of plate-solving!
I'm just confused how/why you were able to slew to the target BEFORE you platesolved. Don't you typically platesolve first so NINA knows where the mount is pointing, then select a target and slew to it?
Your videos are awesome, thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have been having problems aligning with EQ6 / EQMod and stellarium particularly after a meridian flip. Many go too fast with explaining especially when navigating around the screen. It makes it hard to follow. Not so with your tutorials. Again thanks. Pete
Hey Quiv, Love your videos. I bought a raspberry pi and was hoping to use stellarmate to control my setup but it's been really hard work and I've had some wasted nights getting nowhere. I've decided to give NINA a shot and your tutorials are awesome 😎 Quick question; I was using plate solve 2 the other night while doing the polar alignment in NINA and the plate solving was painfully slow. Any ideas why this would be the case? It would take a few minutes each time.
I was never able to get PS2 to work properly so I can't help - but really, you should be using ASTAP! If you have issues, you should ask on the NINA Discord?
@@CuivTheLazyGeek Thank you! It's possible I hadn't configured it correctly but as I have wasted so many evenings getting nowhere (For different reasons) I decided to try ASTAP. At this stage I just want to be able to image without connectivity or workflow issues. My initial impressions of NINA are very good. I set up everything this evening ready to go and then the clouds rolled in (sigh).... I suspect I need a couple more clear evenings with NINA to really get going. Glad I watched your videos on setting up the autofocuser too. I didnt realise there was a NINA discord chat but I will check it out. Thanks for the heads up and clear skies to you
Hi cuiv, here from italy :) last night i try to use for the first time astap as solver in nina but it field and nina said me " please specified the coordinate in the plate solver program ". Can you help me?
i just got an AVX, the connection to the mount seems very laggy and it sometimes even disconnects completely. i tried downloading so many drivers, nothing seems to help
@@CuivTheLazyGeek thank you for your response. Ive been troubleshooting for the past month and im none the wiser. Ill probably send it back for repair or something.
Unfortunately, I cannot relate the screen shown in the video with what I am seeing. I do not see any Platesolving tabs. Perhaps, 4 years later, the video is out of date ?
I always find it funny how particular we are about our astronomy, but when we film ourselves it is like handing a video camera to a five year old. Nothing wrong with that, i just found it a funny observation... realistically it is because we work in low light conditions and video cant handle it.
I appreciate your videos but I have to say. Going from zero astro experience to the iexos-100 and a canon 6d in a month has been a steep learning curve. Nevermind trying to figure out what needs to be done to get the iexos-100 to talk to nina and astap. I'm not a stupid man but I know what love is.... wait no. I meant I'm not a stupid man but jesus christ I don't know if I've ever been so frustrated trying to learn something in my life. Most of the instructions feel like they're written by someone in a foreign language translated word for word literally. There have been several nights where the iexos-100 slew to function just won't work or keep tracking properly and I've just used it as a simple tripod for star trails.
I think you do a great job in your presentation but the whole subject matter, to me, seesm ridiculously complicated. To my poor brain a relatively simple concept such as plate solving has been made into an advanced science lesson. I was hoping NINA could be as simple to use as most people say but it doesn't seem to be. I just want a prorgamme that has a button labelled "upolad photo" and then it is plate solved. Maybe I'm asking / expecting too much simplicity? Again, good job with your presenting skills and good for you for being able to understand all this! I wish I could!!
I believe that they tried to overdone NiNA. By doing so they made it extremely complicated and confusing. APT is way far easier with the same kind of options. I will not advise it to any beginner.
I agree. You have to switch from screen to screen to get things done. In APT its all on one screen. APT blind solves in 30-40 seconds and centers the object in 10-15 seconds . I havent yet managed to remote blind solve in NINA useing the same image. APT is faster cleaner and easier to use. I will still keep trying to get to grips with NINA but i dont see me changing any time soon
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Cuiv, a great video and lots of good information. I will add that when I first used ASTAP it immediately failed. It gave me an error saying it couldn't find the G17database. I went back to the ASTAP website, downloaded te G17 installer, installed it and all was well.
Oh right, forgot to mention that in the video!
strange after installing H17 it still says that there is no star database
@@Boekoe12 @cuiv, the Lazy Geek, what's involved in setting up this database?
@@Boekoe12 I have H17 downloaded getting ready to test it. Did your system function with H17 only? No need for G17?
Yesterday I spent about 2 hours trying to make my iOptron GEM45EC work via ASCOM with Stellarium. The iOptron Commander just quit and crashed I had no idea why (looks like there are bugs in new version of it or Stellarium). I tried a different cable, I re-installed the drivers for it... then I decided to follow this tutorial by Cuiv (luckily I had ASTAP installed and used it in NINA for the manual platesolving), then !Magic! NINA worked well with my mount and just slewed it to the right location (I had NoSync turned OFF) - I have got an absolute catharsis after all that pain with Stellarium. NINA is a software we trust! Thank you, Cuiv for this short tutorial and for the promotion of this wonderful piece of software. I wish it stability and buglessness! Thank you, again, Cuiv!
Awesome!!!! I'm so glad this helped!!
Mate! Thank you so much for all your videos! They've been such a help. You are very thorough and don't leave any details out. Perfect for someone like me who needs every bit of information.
Glad to help!
Thank you for this thorough video. This is game changing. No more manual centering and aligning and laying in the dirt at 10:00pm lol
Cuiv, this is a great video with a LOT of good information. I always have had issues with platesolving (since I was using SGP) and this video helped me identify and understand a few parameters that I had wrong. BUT..."the cherry on top of the icing" was that you helped me understand why I was never able to perform an auto meridian flip sucessfuly. I always saw (with great dispair) how the mount and the software (SGP, NINA) were kind of "fighting each other" and the mount never settled after the flip. Even though it was not the main topic of this video, you pointed out how the Automatic Sync parameter was added to address issues with mounts that were "fighting" against the sync commands from NINA, which was exactly the issue I was having. Once I turned the Automatic Sync "Off" the mount did its first successful meridian flip completely automated!!!! Thank you for your wonderful videos. They are on the top of my TH-cam channel subscription list.
Great video.
I've watched several videos on plate solving and a lot of them seem to forget to actually show you a plate solving demo like this.. 🤣
Thank you my friend for an excellent tutorial on NINA.
My pleasure, glad it was useful!
You are fast becoming my main youtube go-to (no pun intended) for any astrophotography related stuff. Please keep up the great work! Now I have to wait for clear skies to implement plate-solving :D
Thanks, this is a very helpful explanation - I followed these instructions a few nights ago with amazing success!
Excellent to hear, and glad it helped!!
This is so helpful. I wasted so much time trying to figure out plate solving and wondering why it did not work when I was using NINA. Thank you! Your channel is the best.
Hello Cuiv, I just want to thank you as well for the great content you put into your videos. I am learning quite a bit too, just as Dave Kemp noted. Keep up the great work and just know it's not going un-noticed. Clear Skies and God Bless you..
I am learning a lot from your video. NINA looks so much easier and cheaper to use than The SkyX
It really is!
Another well done video. Thanks for sharing i learned things i didn't know about NINA and plate solving. ASTAP rocks
Appreciate you very good explanation of this aspect of N.I.N.A
So awesome! You're an incredible teacher. Thank you for your videos!
My pleasure! Thanks for the feedback!
Excellent video as usual Cuiv. Always clear and practical.
im going to start with platesolving next summer, didn't understand the options to do it but with your video i will succeed! thanks voor the info!
That looks so easy! Thanks for the tutorial. I’ll try this as soon as my telescope is setup in my newly constructed remote observatory!
Plate-solving is a complete game changer - no need to babysit the scope anymore, it can just find its own way among the stars. It removes a lot of frustration! I am so jealous of your remote observatory! Where is it located?
Cuiv, Lazy Geek in Japan Well not in the most ideal conditions, but it’s in my parents garden, so free access to WiFi, power and land! It’s in The Netherlands in a bortle 4 location. Shooting from Tokyo must be a massive challenge! I’ve been a few times, cool city though. So you travel out to a darkside much?
Just wonderful Cuiv, you make everything sooooo "understandable"! Thanks a lot!
Hello from Colorado. Thank you for the great videos. I've been wanting to use NINA since I first heard and saw the software. But it didn't support my EOS Ra so I got me an ASI Air pro and a ASI 294 MC Pro and that took care of me over the summer. But I thought I would just check on the latest nightly build to see if they finally had the EOS Ra and the CR3 Raw Format included and to my surprise it was. So I have been using NINA and my new Canon EOS Ra and I love the full frame image that NINA shows. Really shows of the Vignette of my WO GT102. The 294MC pro has the cropped 4/3 sensor and I could see the Vignette, but it was small. Until I looked at a full frame image. But I will say it is quite well centered in the frame. And I'm sure Flats will correct as they always do. Keep up the good Video's. Especially on NINA. I've got the simple sequence down. But still learning. ;o)
I'm learning so much from your videos, as a beginner I find them so easy to understand and follow and you explain everything so well. I really appreciate the time and effort you take in creating these videos. Awesome work Cuiv!
Tanks a lot for another very informative and well done video!!! Thank for the information about sync near the meridian with eq-mode, I di not know that and I know now why I was having problems one night plat solving!
Yes, magical is the word!
Thanks Cuiv, I always learn something from your videos :)
Teaching on TH-cam is so fun, so it's awesome to see it helps. Thanks for the feedback and clear skies!
I simply love your videos, and you angle of attack to AP :-)
Another great video, again learned a few things. I really like the detail you get into. For example I did not know that the ASCOM type mount (mine is an Atlas EQ-G) didn't like Syncing close to the meridian. Keep going with your videos!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for these videos. I recently switched to NINA from APT. All I have to say is wow! What a difference. For the autofocusing and mosaic capabilities alone, I'm in love with this software. It doesn't hurt that I've also been an open source developer, so those decisions are dear to my heart. I have a lot to learn in the AP space, but I do hope to contribute code to the project at some point in the future!
Thanks so much again. Yup, make sure you input settle down time between earthquakes....maybe 3 months.
Hahaha yes
Wow, wow, wow. Thanks crack, it's the best tutorial video about it
Thank you! Glad it was helpful!
Come back lazy geek and share your videos again... :) Superb video.
Excellent walkthrough, thx
thank you so much for this video. that help me to understand
Thank you for this!
That is a very detailed walkthrough. I will be using the same Vixen R200SS scope on a SW AZEQ5 mount with the same kind of camera (is it QHY268C?)
Great videos, just used Nina for the first time tonight and my target wasn’t central, I’ll be sure to use astap plate solving
Thanks
Thank you, and welcome to NINA (and the channel)! ASTAP and platesolving will make a huge difference.
Superb Cuiv, thankyou.
Yesterday I had my first debut under the sky with the new camera Tauptek 571 and NINA - it was a shame to my gray head)) But I'm glad about it. I worked in NINA for the first time and just stumbled at the plate solve stage. Now I'm going back to your school. Question: Is there a live view mode in NINA? It is a torment to jump from program to program in order to sharpen the Bakhtinov mask. I have a simple electro focuser, not auto focus.
No live view mode, but looping 0.5s or 1s exposures in the imaging tab (disabling star detection) works quite well!
@@CuivTheLazyGeek I suspected this)) Well, I will change my habits for good ones, after Canon. Thanks for the answer!
Hi Cuiv. I have converted!! I ran N.I.N.A. last night for the first time other than trials setting up gear. It worked really well although I need to tweak my autofocus settings a little. Only issue was the centering. It plate solved after the first slew but when centering the target stars were streaked slightly. You mentioned a settle time in your video. Where do I set that please? Thanks for all the videos so far. Without them I doubt I would have switched. Clear skies.
Woohoo! Welcome to the wonderful world of NINA! As for the plate solve, ASTAP is indeed very particular about star shapes. For the settle time, you have one for the first plate solve after meridian flip, and one after each slew. I think I have both set to 15 seconds. Number 11 here nighttime-imaging.eu/docs/develop/site/tabs/options/imaging/ and number 7 here nighttime-imaging.eu/docs/develop/site/tabs/options/equipment/ . Good luck!
Cuiv, The Lazy Geek Thank you. I’m still finding my way around but getting there. I had set the settle time to 10 secs. but don’t remember doing it! I’ve increased to 15 now. Maybe it was a gust of wind that caught the scope as it’s an SCT with a big heated dew shield. I’m going to try sorting the focus settings tonight using your videos to help. The overshoot feature looks good for avoiding mirror flop issues. Keep the videos coming please but my wife has requested you stop showing new gear like the little sharp star scope! - ignore her.😀
@@JohnMcGFrance I'm very good at ignoring CFOs :D I'll make sure to show off new, cute goodies whenever I can! :D
Thanks Cuiv. There are two places to set binning. Either at the camera menu or in the plate solve menu. To prevent binning twice, I would suggest set the ASTAP solving binning at 0 =auto
Thank you! Yeah, I think in NINA we should also change that default to zero from the get go...
I assume that I would input the focal length with my reducer installed? So a 420mm fl with a 0.8 reducer is actually 336?
LOVE the video. I am using NINA but I think this will let me take it to the next level. Maybe I can stop using CPWI. I am still using Sharpcap for PA coz that seems to work really well.
There's a new 3 point polar alignment plugin in NINA that seems to be just as good as Sharpcap's by the way!
Cuiv thank you for your great videos! Question is why does Nina always ask me to confirm my focal length which is set to 400 when plate solving? I am usually awake during my imaging sessions but if I set up a flip or changed targets overnight and it tried to solve would it just sit there and wait for me to confirm this pop up window even though it is already set in the settings and equipment ? Thanks
I'm not sure, it's never asked me! Maybe check with the devs directly on their Discord?
Hi Cuiv, it's a long time since you recorded this. I really like your videos as I am learnning astrophotography besides my visual addiction to large dobsonian (Obsession UC22 under dark skies) and I have a question for you. I see in your videos that you can use the manual handpad of Eqmod after connecting NINA to your scope. For me it is impossible once I have launched NINA and connected it to the scope (EQ6R USB direct) whereas it works before doing that directly with Eqmod. Once NINA is connected, I have to use the hand control within NINA. Is it related to the evolution of NINA (I use the latest version used as of january 2023) or can you still control manually your mount with EQMOD after lauchning NINA and connecting it to your mount? Thanks in advance if you find time to answer. Frederic
I have followed your method for plate solving and I kept getting the error Not Enogh Stars. I am
Trying to do 3 star polar alignment first then I get this error.
I have also went to night sky picked M42 and slewed to the region again once I plate sove the not enough stars error pops up.
Any help advice would be great and appreciated
My solved DSOs are usually off centre. I understand the principles behind it. But it's almost as if the coordinates of the registered centre of a given DSO within the star database / sky coordinates is not the visual centre for AP purposes. I'm using ASTAP in NINA and its very fast but I have to manually recentre most objects. I'm using an Ioptron CEM40 and the GOTO is usually one degree off which is acceptable.... Would changing my Epoch make a difference? Also, I noticed that the centre of some objects in Stellarium are also off centre in exactly the same manner. I'm wondering / betting that a very small DSO would be better centred due to it not having a large vague nebulous area around it.
Basically if u am doing blind solving. I just remember location of target. Remember coordinates and turn my mount to the target. But it would be accurately pointed 👉 👈 to target. But I do use phd2 and phd2 is good for find ur target!
At 8:45. Unless I missed it both times, I don't see where you tell people to download the START DATABASE from the ASTAP web page. I kept getting an error "astap error: no start database found! Download and install one star database" (those files get put into the folder where the astap exe is located).
I know this is a three year old video, but it's an issue I am currently trying to understand. I am using NINA with EQMOD. I have my telescope and SkyWatcher EQ6R mount on a permanent pier in an observatory, so it rarely moves and I rarely ever bother with a polar or three point alignment. But at startup I do an initial plate solve and try to sync it. Frequently, that results in an error message stating NINA could not sync the data. (The telescope is usually pointing near Polaris at that time since it's where I park it). So, if I understand correctly, I can go ahead and slew to target because the error report is just a harmless quirk in EQMOD and NINA can still navigate the telescope correctly? What you just said at 15:05--if sync in the Options: Telescope section is set to on, NINA might not have trouble with sync when doing a plate solve from the Image tab option--I think that may have resolved the concern.
Yep, that's eqmod, just slew and then late solve
How does a guide scope fit into the workflow if you doing plate solving?
amazing info!
One . Question. When I do plate solving in NINA, always It says: WARNING INCREASE DOWNSAMPLING.
It takes long time to do plate solving.
If you're using ASTAP, under options->platesolving there is a downsample option, set it to 2, or even 4. If the option isn't there, you can set the platesolving binning to 2 or 4.
@@CuivTheLazyGeek ok. I Will try. Thanks
Do you have a good recommendation to get started with a similar setup. I am thinking about purchashing a small star tracker, and im wondering if your type of setup would be better with calculations?
Hey Mate..need some help on setting up the Astap. I can't get NINA to talk to it. I have downloaded the program and star data base, directed Nina to its address in program files and then nothing happens. Have I missed a step? I don't see an .exe anywhere either. Thanks in advance....so far loving Nina and your vids.
Very difficult to say - so you downloaded and installed both ASTAP and the G17 star data base, but you don't see an exe file under C:\Program Files\astap\astap.exe ? Do you have any antivirus software running? You may want to disable it if you do.
@@CuivTheLazyGeek thanks Guiv, it's a new mini pc, so I will look at it first chance I get.
Great instructional video for a newbie. Thanks. A question,if that's ok. Using NINA with my zwo (new) cooled camera, 102mm refractor 571mm,with flattener/reducer F 5.6. When I look at live view or view the captured image on my laptop screen it is a blurry background,green black. The stars are sharp enough and it will plate solve. It just doesn't look like anyone else's NINA screen on TH-cam. Have played with the exposures and gain,nothing works. I don't have an autofocuser. Great clear skies, here in Valencia. Any thoughts ? Many thanks.
Have you turned on the unlinked stretch in the options?
@@CuivTheLazyGeek Never heard of that. Will give it a go. Thanks for your reply.
@CuivTheLazyGeek Been living in hope all day about turning on this feature and seeing a clear image. But,Nada. Guess you mean the magic wand type icon next to the star( auto star detection) . Thanks anyway
@@CuivTheLazyGeek I have now watched your vid on imaging settings and have a reasonable live image. Many thanks
Hello Cuiv, great tutorial, actually excellent, I have a question, where I can download the files that you are using in this video, I need to have some in my hard disk since I will be out in the field with no internet to download from NASA, thank you so much!!!
If you're talking about ASTAP and its catalog, they are here: www.hnsky.org/astap.htm , and you would need the G17 catalog - I hope that answers what you were asking!
@@CuivTheLazyGeek Indeed I´ve got that, but when you click in files so you can use a local image is my issue I just can´t find any image I can use NINA keeps telling me that is too large or to small an image and an error appears; I´ve tried making the FOV larger but is the same.
You say that you are a lay geek but man, your knowledge is amazing!!!!
Son of gun Cuiv I think you might have solved an intermittent problem I have been having. My Plate -solving rarely works the first time and sometimes not even the second time. I think it may be the sync to mount button may be the culprit. It has been particularly irritating because I had it set for two attempts then a 3 min interval for the second go through. PS. I did upgrade to the Beta N.I.N.A. but I am still using the baby sequencer. I really don't see any need for the Advanced sequencer yet. - Cheers Kurt
I hope you do get that issue solved!!
Cuiv. Im having problems platesolving near the NCP after the flip. Tracking from NE to NW. The target is not reliably framed as it previously was. Either completely off or slightly off but enough to create ugly borders in the integrated image. Had it set to 10 minutes past the meridian. Should I increase this to 15? Also the pointing tolerance was 1 arc min. Should this be lowered as well? Please help!
Thank you!
Hi, great video again. Please tell me your opinion about plate solving using a small guide scope. I want to use the three points polar alignment of NINA which works using ASTAP plate solving. I have an ASI 224MC planetary camera. You think it would be possible to plate solve using a small guide scope like the ZWO 30mm f/4 and 120mm focal length?
Hi, I trying to use this plate solving whith planetary camera but not have good results.
It' s normal that I wait 20-30 minute to solve an image?
Thank you Cuiv. So did you use the scope's co-ordinates for plate solving or the selected target as you didn't show the sequence screen again after selecting the needle galaxy. Does that update automatically after selecting the target and overides the plate solving screen?
PS I decided to use ASTAP as well and it more than lives up to expectations.
this is going to seem a crazy question but in NINA (which i am new with) when there is an ON/OFF button , if the button is highlighted ON, does that mean the button is ON or that I should select to be ON, dumb question but just need confirmation.
Oooh this is actually a very good question! So if the button text says "On" it means it currently is ON. If it says "Off" it means it currently is OFF. I hope this helps! It's not a stupid question, I'm still confused to this day about switches with I and 0 written on them :)
Thanks Cuiv, another excellent video. This is a real novice question, but which platesolvers require you to be online when you solve? I need to travel out of internet range to image, so any platesolving data needs to be on my local drive.
Thank you! Only Astrometry.Net requires you to be online - others are offline.
Great video! How do you get the image to come up along with the other information in sky atlas?
I have ASTAP installed in the right directory, yet when I try to plate solve in NINA, it says "No star database found at C|Program Files|astap; Download the h18 and install." But I did that already. Astap.exe is in that directory, along with a bunch of numbered files. What the heck happened? It worked previously with a different set-up. Could too few stars captured by the camera give such an error?
Wow 😯.... just a fantastic video mate! Thanks for sharing... truly impressive the way you explain every detail... quick question? Can you plate solve from an image from a previous session? So you can capture data over multiple nights?? Thanks
Good news, yes you can! Two ways:
- Save your sequence, including target coordinates, before closing NINA, and reopen it the next night
- In the framing wizard, open an image from the previous session (using the "File" image source)
Cuiv, The Lazy Geek Hi mate... awesome, just got my first mono camera and it is likely that I will have to collect different channels/filters over multiple nights. Thanks for your response. Clear skies 🌌
Interesting Quiv, but one thing I'm missing here, don't I need to download one of the database catalogs on the ASTAP site ??
And if so, which one do I need H17 or H18 ?
thank you this video was the key
Awesome! Glad it helped!
Thank you! I am a SGP user who has many questions.
1- is the G17 catalog good for any field of view or is there different catalogs to get for the different telescopes one can own?
2- Does NINA show the frame that is platesolved in the image window? It is nice to know if you are getting closer visually.
3- Once the image is centered with ASTAP, is there a " center here instead" functionality to change the framing before starting to image?
4- If the center of the frame is changed as in #3, can that change be saved in NINA for another imaging session on the same target but a different filter?
Thank you again.
Welcome to the dark side Ha El :)
1. If you have an SCT, you may want to go for the G18 catalog - but otherwise, G17 should work for most focal lengths
2. Yes, the platesolved image is in the image window, so you can check it visually
3. Not really a center here instead function - you'd need to go back to the framing wizard. Doable, but less convenient.
4. Yes, just add the new center as new sequence target, then save the sequence!
@@CuivTheLazyGeek merci!
I'm new to AP. Does this mean that after polar alignment I don't have to worry about star alignments? I can just platesolve near my target?
Welcome to the field of AP! You have a long but fun (and sometimes frustrating!) road ahead of you! You are correct, I never bother to do a star alignment. Actually as part of the plate-solving, NINA typically sends a Sync command to the mount - which is the same thing as doing a star alignment! So just plate-solve near your target and you should be fine. Good luck and clear skies!
Could you tell me if you are using your guide scope camera or your main Imaging camera to do the plate solving?
My main imaging camera, as this is in the end where I want the framing to happen!
I would definitely try NINA if it wasn't for the fact that Astroberry is so dam good.
the best man!
hey cuiv great content. do you have a filter in place for this video?
Thank you Ryan! I believe I had a simple Luminance (UV/IR) filter in place for this video.
Cuiv, if I have EQMOD and Nina set to use the JNOW epoch, then do I still need to set the target coordinates in the Sequence tab using J2000? If I use the Sky Atlas to set a sequence target, then will it use JNOW or J2000 coordinates? Won't this cause confusion between EQMOD and Nina?
J2000 is usually the reference for targets, but never fear, NINA converts to what the mount expects (e.g. JNOW for your), if the setting under options -> general -> astrometry is set properly (although the proper epoch may now be taken from the mount directly, so that setting may no longer exist - not in front of computer)
Is there a way to test plate solving before you go out to "field or imaging session"?
Mmmh you could use the NINA simulator camera, have it load one of your subs from a previous session, and test platesolve on that
I’ve been a subscriber since early on and your videos have been instrumental getting my setup operational with NINA. Two days ago I installed the latest beta update to NINA and found some of my specific references to location files and keys on my laptop were gone and had to be reestablished. For example, I had to redo the plate solving set up, the color scheme and a few others. Is there a way to save these settings as a sidecar file somewhere and then reload it into a new version? This was a real pain to look up, reestablish these settings up again and get everything working again. Thanks again for your time and effort putting these videos together. We appreciate it!
I haven't used the Beta version yet (not since 1.10 came out!), but typically what you describe is linked to an instance of NINA not being closed properly, and launching a second one. The second instance will not have access to your usual profile. I assume you now have several profiles in the Options General tab because of that. The solution is simply to kill all NINA processes (or rebooting) before launching NINA again.
@@CuivTheLazyGeek Thanks. That is what I did. The icon notice in the upper right of NINA indicated a new version and I downloaded it without closing NINA--at least that's what I recall doing! If that is indeed the case a warning to close the current version before downloading seems like it might be in order. Again, Cuiv, I believe that's what I did. BTW, we point folks in our astronomy club to your videos on NINA. We haven't come across a clearer, more practical presentation. Looking forward to you crossing the 10,000 subscriber club!
Cuiv, I'm baffled on how to do a mosiac since none of the image source options actually show the nebula well. Any suggestions?
Mmmh, which version of NINA are you using? 1.10 should get decent photos from the NASA Sky Survey. If you still get issues, I'd recommend asking directly on the NINA Discord channel here: discord.gg/fwpmHU4 . Hope you manage to set it up properly!
@@CuivTheLazyGeek I'm using the latest beta, downloaded it yesterday. I'll ask on discord, thank you! I'm not giving up. 18 more subscribers!!!!! Almost there!
I downloaded the h17 database but when I run plate solve it says no database found in C
had the same problem so i downloaded the G17 (older) database and now it works.
Thanks I shall try it later.
@@xanxan-1016 didnt try to platesolve yet, but I didn't get the no star database anymore
Salut Cuiv. I've got many issues. I avoid to depend on only 1 system. I have ASIAIRPRO which works great. No issues. Now I have started to set up another rig with NINA. My mount is the HEQ5 pro. So EQMOD is ok. All connections ok as well as sync with stellarium. My issues...after polar aliment,my mount slews v very far from targets through I tried to troubleshoot. My guiding calibration fails. Either the star movement is too low or calibration steps too low. I am getting crazy with this. Can you please help? All prior steps are good...lat, longitude, hemisphere, timezone. And polar alignment with less than 5 min total error
One last thing...ASTAP always fails to plate solve whereas All sky plate solver succeeds after loooong minutes. Did you ever had such issues?
Sorry Jean, I never had such issues, and it's hard to diagnose... There is definitely something wrong in your settings somewhere (but I haven't used EQMOD in a long time, I use GSS). You really want to join the NINA Discord and ask there if you need support!!
ASTAP solves instantaneously for me, never an issue. This seems to be another symptom of a wrong setting somewhere - you need to join the NINA Discord!
@@CuivTheLazyGeek Thanks a lot Bro😊
ATRAP failed sometimes . Be sure that the G17 catalogue is download ! I use astronometry.net online ou outline it usually works
Yes I should have specifically mentioned that! Astrometry.net may not be fast, but it is extremely robust - it works with almost any image! ASTAP is a bit more demanding about star shapes...
Awesome video as always, Cuiv.
Can you use the telescope after you first setup (and after polar aligning the mount) to plate solve and feed those coordinates back to the mount? Then every slew after that should be more accurate?
The Platesolving syncs the coords to the mount in the first place, so effectively they are fed to the mount and every slew (in the vicinity of the object) afterwards is more accurate - it's an automatic side effect of plate-solving!
@@CuivTheLazyGeek thanks for the explanation
I'm just confused how/why you were able to slew to the target BEFORE you platesolved. Don't you typically platesolve first so NINA knows where the mount is pointing, then select a target and slew to it?
I was thinking exactly the same and I'm a bit confused now haha. Hope for some answers here.
Your videos are awesome, thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have been having problems aligning with EQ6 / EQMod and stellarium particularly after a meridian flip. Many go too fast with explaining especially when navigating around the screen. It makes it hard to follow. Not so with your tutorials. Again thanks.
Pete
Awesome! Glad it's been helpful!
@@CuivTheLazyGeek It has been very helpful. it's all set up and working like a dream. Again thanks
Does nina work with mirrorless cameras?
Hey Quiv,
Love your videos.
I bought a raspberry pi and was hoping to use stellarmate to control my setup but it's been really hard work and I've had some wasted nights getting nowhere.
I've decided to give NINA a shot and your tutorials are awesome 😎
Quick question; I was using plate solve 2 the other night while doing the polar alignment in NINA and the plate solving was painfully slow.
Any ideas why this would be the case? It would take a few minutes each time.
I was never able to get PS2 to work properly so I can't help - but really, you should be using ASTAP! If you have issues, you should ask on the NINA Discord?
@@CuivTheLazyGeek Thank you! It's possible I hadn't configured it correctly but as I have wasted so many evenings getting nowhere (For different reasons) I decided to try ASTAP. At this stage I just want to be able to image without connectivity or workflow issues. My initial impressions of NINA are very good. I set up everything this evening ready to go and then the clouds rolled in (sigh).... I suspect I need a couple more clear evenings with NINA to really get going. Glad I watched your videos on setting up the autofocuser too. I didnt realise there was a NINA discord chat but I will check it out. Thanks for the heads up and clear skies to you
Hi cuiv, here from italy :) last night i try to use for the first time astap as solver in nina but it field and nina said me " please specified the coordinate in the plate solver program ". Can you help me?
i just got an AVX, the connection to the mount seems very laggy and it sometimes even disconnects completely. i tried downloading so many drivers, nothing seems to help
I had an AVX. I never could get it to work well, but I think others may... unfortunately I won't be able to help you
@@CuivTheLazyGeek thank you for your response. Ive been troubleshooting for the past month and im none the wiser. Ill probably send it back for repair or something.
@@CuivTheLazyGeek also, your videos are the best, hands down. Greetings from belgique
Bon anglais facile à comprendre. Merci beaucoup.
Merci pour le commentaire et content que le contenu, meme en anglais, puisse etre utile!
Unfortunately, I cannot relate the screen shown in the video with what I am seeing. I do not see any Platesolving tabs. Perhaps, 4 years later, the video is out of date ?
You should try ANSVR as a blindsolver. It's a local version of Astrometry.net.
I tried the one that SGP uses with NINA without success - not sure where the issue is. I may try again at some point!
You speak English better than most native English speakers. What is your first language?
Thanks! It's French :)
Hello I have a question... Does it have to be hooked up to the Internet to slew to the coordinates like in sequence generator pro? Thanks
No internet connection needed, unless you use the online Astrometry.net. This is just like SGP!
I always find it funny how particular we are about our astronomy, but when we film ourselves it is like handing a video camera to a five year old. Nothing wrong with that, i just found it a funny observation... realistically it is because we work in low light conditions and video cant handle it.
Guess I'm getting a goto mount. My credit card is going to shank me in my sleep any day now, I swear.
Yes! Do it! Just lock your credit card in a safe to avoid any shanking :D
👍👍
I appreciate your videos but I have to say. Going from zero astro experience to the iexos-100 and a canon 6d in a month has been a steep learning curve. Nevermind trying to figure out what needs to be done to get the iexos-100 to talk to nina and astap. I'm not a stupid man but I know what love is.... wait no. I meant I'm not a stupid man but jesus christ I don't know if I've ever been so frustrated trying to learn something in my life. Most of the instructions feel like they're written by someone in a foreign language translated word for word literally.
There have been several nights where the iexos-100 slew to function just won't work or keep tracking properly and I've just used it as a simple tripod for star trails.
I think you do a great job in your presentation but the whole subject matter, to me, seesm ridiculously complicated. To my poor brain a relatively simple concept such as plate solving has been made into an advanced science lesson. I was hoping NINA could be as simple to use as most people say but it doesn't seem to be. I just want a prorgamme that has a button labelled "upolad photo" and then it is plate solved. Maybe I'm asking / expecting too much simplicity? Again, good job with your presenting skills and good for you for being able to understand all this! I wish I could!!
I believe that they tried to overdone NiNA. By doing so they made it extremely complicated and confusing. APT is way far easier with the same kind of options. I will not advise it to any beginner.
Fair opinion! I tend to disagree, but to each their own!
I agree. You have to switch from screen to screen to get things done. In APT its all on one screen. APT blind solves in 30-40 seconds and centers the object in 10-15 seconds . I havent yet managed to remote blind solve in NINA useing the same image. APT is faster cleaner and easier to use. I will still keep trying to get to grips with NINA but i dont see me changing any time soon
I know its four year old video, but you just leaked your Weather Api Key....probably should change it