NINA Tutorial - How to PLATE SOLVE and Set Up an Imaging Session
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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2022
- Hello all!
In this video, I will show you how to set up NINA to plate solve, and run an entire imaging session. I have other related videos that may be helpful to you as well, take a look below:
How to connect your mount to computer:
• Astrophotography Begin...
How to do a blind polar alignment with NINA:
• NINA Three Point Polar... 
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Dude I switched to NINA with plate solving today after watching your video. This video is friggin perfect. One stop shop for setting this up. I’ve been completely manual alignment and guiding with PhD2 for the last year. I can’t express enough how easy and convenient this is. My god. The dude that wrote NINA should legitimately receive a Nobel prize for making astronomy and astrophotography so accessible to people.
As someone who is just beginning the transition to DSO photography from planetary, I can't express how much I appreciate these detailed, step-by-step tutorials. It takes a lot of time, patience and thoroughness for you to put these up. Many gratefull thanks!!
LOL, last night every time I tried to nail my first platesolve, NINA also doesn't tell you when it's doing nothing. I never installed ASTAP so there was no movement. Thanks for the video.
Thanx for the Video. I am a total Noob, and so found this very helpfull. I just had to find another Video on how to setup Stellarium, so that it can "chat" to NINA. ie: F2, Plugins, Remote Control, Enable Load at Startup, and in Configuration, Enable Server enables, and Enable Auto on Start up. Save Settings, and restart Stelleraium. NINIA was then able to "chat" and show the Object Selected. as per your Video. Thanx.
Excellent video! I have my mini PC all setup to run NINA and now have a better idea on how to start imaging.
I hope it'll work out for you! NINA is great and easy to use.
Great video mister, wonderful .. thanks You very much....sir 👏👏👏
Why do you need to do a star alignment if you are using plate solving on your target? I thought plate solving replaces star alignment that I did with the hand controller. I'm just moving from hand controller to NINA plate solving. Playing with NINA I now set the "Field of View" at 7 degree so I can see my framing easier.
Priceless 🙏😊👏 As a person just about to get going with NINA this is just brilliant, thanks 🤩
Just found your channel and im so glad! Thank you so much for your efforts! Suscribed, and looking forward for your helpful videos! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
WOW!! Thank you for a great video. I am just getting started and this helped a ton.
Great video -very clear and helpful. I am just transitioning from manual framing, and using guiding as a separate function (PHD2 controlling the mount). I am building the software pieces to have NINA to put it all together. You patient step-by-step was so clear and better than many of those "super-astrophotographers" who moved too fast, and who glossed over the small details! Thank you very much! I look forward to your other videos. .. Clear Skies!
Thank you! Please take a look at how to connect these software and install them onto your computer. And I appreciate your kind words. I hope I can add something that'll help others spend more time imaging and less time cursing their lungs out. However, I still encourage everyone to explore for themselves 😅
Thanks so much for this great video!
Thanks, great video.
Awesome video
this is very helpful, thank you. But, how did you get NINA to talk to Stellarium.
Thanks for this. I'm just getting into AP. I don't have access to Polar align as my telescope has to be on a South facing deck of the house. Does NINA do Blind Plate Solving as a default?
Thanks!!!!
Great video. I’m new to nina and wondering if there’s a way to set intervals for dslrs on nina to keep sensor temperatures lower? I can’t find much online about this.
Great video. Very helpful. I have a phd2: I noticed you got an error msg that "PHD2 is not able to make sufficient corrections in Dec..." I have been getting that same message together with erratic guiding (I use a Celestron CGXL mount that should not but might have bad backlash). Any advice? Does NINA recognize this and help PHD2 settings? Thanks.
Hey after i have NINA all set up what program can i use to slew and track objects with my scope? I am currently working on setting up my scope to be controlled from a laptop indoors.And one last question , can i do plate solving and centering the object with my DSLR? thanks!
Great tutorial!, so basically plate solving eliminates the need for star alignment? As long as you got a rough polar alignment? Ive been struggling with alignment and i think this will help me ! 🤙🏽
NINA also has a plug-in called "Three Point Polar Alignment" which is very handy for fine tuning your polar alignment (doesn't need Polaris). That makes your guiding a lot easier if you are guiding and will help your exposure times if you are not guiding.
Very helpful - I like all your equipment in the background, your "pretentious cool guy wall of crap" LOL
Why else do you think I have a rack of astro stuff along that way? I need that RUclips clout yo.
Thank you for this very informative video. I want to use the three point polar alignment of NINA. I own a planetary camera the ASI 224MC. I know that it works using plate solving with ASTAP. Do you think I could use plate solve to achieve this, if I pair my ASI224MC camera with a small guide scope like the ZWO 30mm f/4 - 120mm focal length?
Absolutely, I can't see why it wouldn't work with your camera.
@@nocturneastro2539 Thank you for your reply.
This and your vid on the 3 star alignment have been helpful. But when trying to do any plate solving I get errors that it failed (Astap). Any suggestions as to what to try next?
Thanks for watching the videos!
1) Make sure your focal length is entered into NINA correctly.
2) Make sure your camera specs are entered into NINA correctly.
3) Make sure NINA and ASTAP are actually talking.
4) Make sure your plate solving images don't have any star trails
5) Make sure there are enough stars in your image for the software to actually solve
For your setup, it looks like you have a lens ring that has a foot on the top and on the bottom. What is that? I an trying to figure out how to do something like that for my lens :-) Thank You!
You mean the black dew heaters wrapped around my main and guide scope?
@@nocturneastro2539 Nope, there is a lens foot that looks like it screws to a dovetail plate that clamps to the mount on the bottom of the lens (normal photography stuff), and there is another red lens foot that attaches to the guide scope on the top of the lens. I'm trying to find a way to mount my guide scope on top of my lens like this. How are you attaching the guide scope to the lens? Thanks Again!
If you add 3 lines: LIGHT, DARK, BIAS frames will NINA know to stop after the LIGHT frames are done and allow you to put on the telescope cap?
Not on the test I ran using NINA 2.0 HF2 Beta007. If you are using a DSLR, I would set up and save a sequence that you could call up after finishing your lights. If you are using a dedicated astro camera, I would consider building a library of darks/bias. In my case, I have a library of darks for each of my cameras with times ranging from 30s to 15min. I don't use bias frames. I use darkflats instead.
The tip I found useful is installing Stellarium for the planetarium. Stellarium appears to be compatible with NINA and plate solving proceeded much more smoothly and quickly. However, Stellarium can drain the laptop battery - and lo and behold - my laptop lost power near the end of the imaging session. However, after the coordinates are clicked-in from Framing, Stellarium can be practically shut down to save the laptop battery. Are there any tips on how to install/configure Stellarium so it won't drain the laptop battery ? This assumes you want to keep Stellarium open during the imaging session for information, or for optional telescope control.
Unfortunately, I don't think there's an alternative if you want to leave stellarium on. For whatever reason, it seems to be a resource heavy software and in turn, that'll contribute to the high power consumption of your laptop. Only solution I have for you is to plug your laptop into a power source throughout the night.
By default, Stellarium uses a really high frame rate to render it's sky. But you can change it in the configuration file: default values are: minimum frame rate 10, maximum frame rate 1000. Change it to 1 and 10 respectively. It should drastically reduce CPU and GPU usage. Also - turn off anything you don't use - satellites especially.
How do you connect your DSLR to nina?
I keep getting not enough stars error can you help cheers
This is an error from plate solving. Basically, as the message suggests, your pictures are not giving enough stars, or "dots" for the software to identify with.
1) check your focus. Too soft or fuzzy of stars won't work
2) check for star trails. If your "stars" look like lines. It won't work. Lower your exposure until you stop getting trails.
3) check balance to eliminate star trails
4) check PA to eliminate star trails
One question. When I do plate solving in NINA, It always says: WARNING: INCREASE DOWNSAMPLING.
For me I always takes more time to center the image. Is there anything wrong??
I have a Nikon DSLR, tracker, and manual mount. I can also only see 60 degrees left and right of south, and only over 30 degrees from the horizon to overhead. Is NINA still do-able?
So I am guessing you don't have goto capability? If not, you will not be able to use this feature unfortunately 😥. The rest of NINA will still be available to you, just not this blind polar alignment.
@@nocturneastro2539 No go to capability; can u suggest the cheapest way to get that?
@@deeber35 I have 4 recommendations for you, and they all come down to payload capacity:
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTI
Sky-Watcher EQM35
iOptron CEM26
iOptron GEM25
@@nocturneastro2539 Thanks. I'm a bit confused...in the video u mention manually slewing your scope; so why is Goto capability needed?
@@deeber35 are you sure? You can't manually slew for this procedure. I think I mentioned it and make sure to "turn off" the manual slew option in NINA