Category: NINA
NINA – Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy
On N.I.N.A. as free and open source software
Time to time, the question of “what astrophotography software do I use?” is asked on forums. Users of various software relate their impressions and preferences and, presumably, the person who posed the question is armed with the knowledge and clarity needed to make their decision. N.I.N.A. is usually mentioned during Read More …
Astromechanics Aperture Control
The ASCOM Canon Lens Controller from Astromechanics is a popular device for those who wish to combine a Canon EF/RF lens with an astro camera and control the lens focus mechanism like a traditional ASCOM focuser. One of the features of this device and its ASCOM Focuser driver is that Read More …
PlaneWave Tools
This plugin includes the following instructions: PlaneWave Tools is a plugin for NINA that enables the control of various support systems on PlaneWave mounts and OTAs directly from the Advanced Sequencer. These instructions allow one to fully automate typical PlaneWave session workflows from power-on to power-off, including fan and heater Read More …
Using N.I.N.A. with Astro-Physics mounts
Introduction This document is to serve as an explainer/FAQ for using N.I.N.A. with an Astro-Physics mount. While there is nothing specific to N.I.N.A. that one must set in the Astro-Physics ASCOM driver, APCC, or the mount’s Control Panel settings, there are a number of helpful configuration tips and capabilities within Read More …
Ground Station: Notifications for NINA
Alerts and remote notifications are undeniably useful and can bring peace of mind when running unattended astrophotography sequences. NINA has lacked this feature, however. Not because it was seen as unwanted, but NINA’s rapid internal evolution and the myriad of ways that people prefer to do alerts made the prospect Read More …
Astro-Physics Tools
Astro-Physics Tools is a NINA plugin that implements multiple Advanced Sequencer instructions that are useful for users of Astro-Physics mounts and APCC Pro. Introduction Astro-Physics Tools is a plugin for NINA 2.0. It provides instructions that enable direct interaction with Astro-Physics’ APCC Pro and APPM applications. This interaction is currently Read More …
1Q2021 changes and improvements in NINA’s native QHY interface
I’ve been working on some improvements to NINA’s native driver for QHY cameras over the past several weeks. Part of this post is just informational in nature, explaining some new features, but there is also some important information that I want to make sure that all users of the native Read More …
Introducing N.I.N.A. 1.10
After 10 months of hard work, the N.I.N.A. team, led by Stefan Berg, is proud to promote version 1.10 from active development to be the new stable release. Support ends for the prior N.I.N.A. stable, 1.9, and work on the next version, 1.11, commences. N.I.N.A. 1.10 contains several sizable new Read More …
NINA 1.8: New feature preview
NINA developer Stanley Dimant has produced a video which details and explains the many new features and refinements which will debut with the upcoming 1.8 release. Read More …
Adding QHY SDK Support to NINA
After doing some touch-ups to NINA’s integration with ZWO cameras to get familiar with coding in C# and how camera support in NINA is done, I felt ready to tackle implementing support for an entirely new camera. For this, I chose to implement native support for QHY cameras and started Read More …