> Curious- do people run NINA and other astro programs with Administrator rights? With SGP things seemed to work best with SGP, PHD2, Astroplanner all working with Admin rights.
I've never explicitly played with the admin settings for anything NINA related (besides on the installer/updater I think) - so after it starts up it should be fine?
I have just started playing around with NINA and can only agree it is a nifty piece of software at an excellent price I may add.
One unresolved problem for me is getting it to recognize my QHY268M camera. The stable version of NINA sees the camera as the OSC and also recognizes the QHY filter wheel. When I tried the Nightly version it correctly saw the camera as mono but failed to recognize the filter wheel. I downloading all the versions of QHY drivers etc to no avail. Since it is not a big deal I will stay with the 1.10 Stable version for now. Despite this, NINA is a clever piece of software.
I don't know if that's an issue with NINA. I know my friends who got their QHY268M initially had dodginess with getting the right version of QHY driver installed too for it work.
I just saw another thread in CloudyNights about the QHY268M driver too:
NINA is my tool of choice, and I own both SGP and Voyager. Really have come to love it.
My only real gripe is the rather confusing method of changing the layout of various windows in the 'imaging' section. It's great that its so customisable, but I get lost in anchoring windows and getting things how I want them.
NINA is my tool of choice, and I own both SGP and Voyager. Really have come to love it.
My only real gripe is the rather confusing method of changing the layout of various windows in the 'imaging' section. It's great that its so customisable, but I get lost in anchoring windows and getting things how I want them.
Must admit with both NINA and SGP you sometimes wonder if you'll be able to get back to the previous layout when you start moving the window panels about.
Very pleased how all aspects of NINA have held up in the field. Had some hardware challenges to work around, but otherwise the framing, sequencing, focusing etc performed very well. Speed and reliability of plate solving is impressive, and integration with PHD2 dithering etc excellent. Once everthing is ready, bang - its off and exposing without any messing about.
The only area I've managed to trick myself up so far is in the basic sequencer set to run multiple targets. Managed to unknowlingly mess with slew/centre/autofocus/meridian flips settings between targets, and then later puzzled why it wasn't flipping, or focusing etc. Eventually realised it had done exactly what I'd told it to however
Still have SGP installed in the background. Nice they now only support and supply the most up to date V3 release. Haven't had to fall back to it yet however.
NINA is my tool of choice, and I own both SGP and Voyager. Really have come to love it.
My only real gripe is the rather confusing method of changing the layout of various windows in the 'imaging' section. It's great that its so customisable, but I get lost in anchoring windows and getting things how I want them.
100% agree with this. Thankfully there’s a reset layout button but still, it’s hard to understand how to move the windows around sometimes.
Here’s a video that also goes into how the layout works
If you’re prepared to test the nightlies, there’s quite a few nice plugins released now - filter offset calculator, & drift polar alignment routine to name a few.
If you’re prepared to test the nightlies, there’s quite a few nice plugins released now - filter offset calculator, & drift polar alignment routine to name a few.
Where can you read up on these please Sean? I read somewhere about the Sharpcap style PA routine that was coming and wondering how it would be implemented. Have zilch understanding of plugins currently - will have to do some research. Filter offset calculator sounds nice too.
I can confirm TPAPA working from the southern hemisphere - Isbeorn made a few quick updates as I tested it the last few nights (if you scroll up in pplugin-discussions channel you'll see some very dodgy reported PA numbers, but its all been fixed now!).
Same with the ground station alert plugin, no longer do I have remote into my laptop just to see if a meridan flip or platesolve has worked, it will now tell me on my phone
I am using NINA Nightly since the last few months after starting with APT.
It is a great software, easy to use.
First I had some issues with the layout as mentioned by @toc but it is very easy. Drag the window in the general area where you want it and a "Nintendo" style button appears. Left, up, right and down. That represents where it goes in that particular window.
The moment you get it, it is easy. Hard to explain when you not have it running.
Had my first multinight outing of NINA 2 weeks ago. Really pleased how it behaved. Only real problems where separate hardware problems - which the probably of which increases the better the weather and darker the skies!
Downloaded the latest Nightly yesterday and the plugins for three points polar alignment.
Now to wait till the rain stops and the clouds go away to try it out.
It looks like Sharpcap is no longer needed.
Downloaded the latest Nightly yesterday and the plugins for three points polar alignment.
Now to wait till the rain stops and the clouds go away to try it out.
It looks like Sharpcap is no longer needed.
U should ask Master Oogway from our local group! He has already used it successfully a few times and step you through it if needed .
Would be interested to hear how the PA routine works out for other southern hemisphere users. Haven't tried it yet, but on their Discord people seem excited about it.
U should ask Master Oogway from our local group! He has already used it successfully a few times and step you through it if needed .
I know :-)
Had a quick look, looks very simple and use 3 slews instead of 2 like Sharpcap.
No to wait on:
- clouds to go away
- shorter screws to attached my OAG to the CFW again after getting the flattener adapter made by B1.