NINA - As EASY As 1-2-3 Part 1: Setup & Basic Workflow

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Résumé

TLDRThe video is the first part of a tutorial series on Nina, an automation software for astrophotography. It covers the installation of Nina, connecting your equipment, and the basic setup for its use. Nina automates the astrophotography process, allowing users to monitor their equipment without needing to stand beside their rig. The presenter also contrasts Nina with ASI Air, noting Nina's flexibility and compatibility with various gear. The session concludes with a hands-on guide to setting up the software and preparing for manual astrophotography sessions, while upcoming videos promise to delve into more advanced functionalities.

A retenir

  • 🔧 Nina is an automation software for astrophotography.
  • 🌌 It allows users to automate shooting sessions while they can relax.
  • 🖥️ Installation requires a Windows mini PC.
  • 🚀 Nina offers more flexibility than ASI Air.
  • 📷 Essential to connect guiding cameras and equipment through ASCOM.
  • 🗺️ Users can use a sky atlas and offline skymaps.
  • 💻 Nina allows for remote control and monitoring.
  • 📝 Upcoming videos will cover advanced features and sequences.
  • 🔌 Make sure all equipment is properly connected and configured in Nina.
  • 📊 Users can save images in multiple formats: FITS, TIFF, or XIFF.

Chronologie

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The video introduces Nina, an automation software for astrophotography that allows users to automate the shooting process while they enjoy other activities. It discusses the installation of Nina, connecting equipment, and understanding its functionalities compared to other software like ASI Air.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The presenter highlights Nina's installation process, emphasizing the need to download necessary files, including the Sky Atlas and guiding software. It is noted that Nina is only available for Windows, requiring a Windows mini computer for operation.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Key software requirements are mentioned, including ASCOM for communication between Nina and the equipment, and guiding software such as PHD2. Additional tools discussed include plate-solving software necessary for precise imaging.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The tutorial continues with a walkthrough of Nina's initial setup, explaining profiles, interface design, and key configuration settings such as equipment selection, saving images, and plate solving parameters.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:29:04

    In conclusion, part one of the tutorial leads viewers through Nina's manual operation mode. It prepares viewers for the next parts about sequencing and advanced features, encouraging them to subscribe for updates and access additional resources.

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Vidéo Q&R

  • What is Nina?

    Nina stands for Nighttime Imaging Astronomy, and it is an automation software that facilitates astrophotography.

  • How is Nina different from ASI Air?

    Nina offers more flexibility and customization options compared to ASI Air, allowing for a wider range of compatible equipment.

  • What are the system requirements for Nina?

    Nina is only available for Windows, and a mini PC is often recommended for remote operation.

  • Can I use Nina on a Mac?

    No, Nina is not available for Mac operating systems.

  • Do I need additional software to use Nina?

    Yes, software like ASCOM, PHD2 for guiding, and plate solving software are recommended for full functionality.

  • Is Nina free to use?

    Yes, Nina is free, but additional costs may be incurred for necessary software and hardware.

  • What should I do if my camera does not appear in Nina?

    Ensure that the ASCOM driver is correctly installed and that the camera is connected to the computer.

  • What file formats can Nina save images in?

    Nina can save images in FITS, TIFF, or XIFF formats.

  • Can I connect a guiding camera to Nina?

    Yes, Nina can connect to guiding cameras, often using PHD2 for guiding control.

  • What is discussed in the next video?

    The next video will cover creating and using sequences in Nina.

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    in this Trilogy it is all about Nina and
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    I will guide you from your very first
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    step sent the installation to creating
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    complex sequences
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    so in this first part we talk about the
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    installation of Nina the connection to
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    all your equipment and your first steps
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    with Nina and you might ask why don't
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    you sit comfortably on your chair where
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    it usually sit but stand beside my rig
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    because Nina has all to do with the rig
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    it's the partner so you could say Nina
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    is the software that rules it all and in
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    the shadow know that that's another
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    trial action anyway so let's go back
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    what is Nina
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    Nina is in principle an automation
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    software it automates your shooting
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    Knights so that you can go to sleep or
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    play Playstation or watch a movie or
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    whatever but that you don't have to
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    stand beside the rig
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    now you might say is this really that
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    complicated and let's think about it
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    what do we need that we can peacefully
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    go to sleep
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    besides being sure that there's already
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    we need to control the mount on one side
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    that it's loose to the right target
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    on the other side that was sure that it
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    follows the target so we need a guide
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    scope a guide cam we need some guiding
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    software and this has to be controlled
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    again for example for the dithering then
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    we need to have control over our camera
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    and it's cooled the right way that it
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    makes the photos that we want
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    we may need to change filters from time
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    to time we need to ensure that we're
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    always in focus for example when we
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    change filters for example when the
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    temperature changes we need to control
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    our do heaters
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    the power source
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    so you see there's the multitude of
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    decisions that have to be made
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    throughout the night
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    and if we don't want to do it we need
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    some software who does it
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    now you might have heard of the ASI air
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    and you go like so why should I go with
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    Nina but it's not per se that you should
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    that's not what I'm saying but you might
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    be forced to or you might prefer it so
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    to use an ASI error first of all you
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    need a mount that is compatible with
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    asir and you need all your gear your
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    camera your focuser your filter wheel
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    all need to be
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    from swo
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    in my case that would actually be
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    possible but it was not possible before
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    with my cbc800 because that refused to
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    work with the asir
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    so that's one thing to keep in mind the
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    other thing is with the asir you kind of
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    locked in a system
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    either you like it or you don't like it
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    with Nina you're much more open there's
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    a lot of plugins a lot of things you
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    could change however you want it
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    with asir you're controlling either with
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    your cell phone or with the tablet with
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    Nina you control it with a computer also
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    remotely but so it's a different device
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    some like this better some like the
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    other better Nina is free that doesn't
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    mean that it comes for free because
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    normally you would also like to use it
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    remotely and if you want to reuse it
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    remotely you need a Mini PC and that
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    also costs around 250 bucks so for that
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    you can also buy the asir so I would say
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    from a price point of view they're both
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    about the same so the bottom line is
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    it's not that Nina or the asir is better
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    first of all it's a question of taste
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    second all for certain setups the ASR
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    just doesn't work so we will now leave
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    the rig go to the computer and there I
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    will explain you everything from the
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    installation to your first steps in Nina
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    so welcome to my computer before we
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    actually go into Nina let's look a few
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    things in the browser
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    and the first thing is obviously the
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    home page of Nina
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    Nina name is nighttime Imaging astronomy
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    during this homepage we can actually
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    download it for that we go to download
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    at the moment version 2.2 is out and you
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    can download it and it's only available
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    for Windows
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    so no Mac and at the beginning I was a
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    little bit upset about that but actually
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    given that I usually use it remotely you
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    need a mini computer
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    and even I love my Mac Mini for doing
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    all the processing it's probably not the
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    right computer to put on a rig so you
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    need a little Windows mini computer and
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    sorry anyway have Windows in addition to
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    that you find down here the sky Atlas
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    image repository and the offline skymap
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    cache please also download both of them
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    one gives you nice little pictures of
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    the objects you're looking for and the
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    other actually in the offline Sky Map
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    gives you the whole background so that
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    you can actually frame the objects that
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    you want so both of them are very
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    important and you should download them
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    if you go over to documentation you find
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    the manual and in the manual you
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    actually find the requirements
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    and the requirements are really low so a
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    mini computer will fulfill all of that
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    easy now it gets more interesting down
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    here when we look at recommended and
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    optional support software and the good
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    part is it provides you even the links
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    here
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    so what you obviously need is ascom
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    which is the interface actually to
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    communicate to your gear so you don't
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    get around that and then you definitely
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    need some guiding software usually this
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    is phd2 there's also meta guide guiding
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    never used that so most people use the
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    PHD too and if you have not yet used it
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    please download it then for a lot of
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    things Nina uses plate solving and it
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    actually can use two different solutions
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    one as the primary and one as the
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    secondary plate solving solution if one
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    or the other actually fails the most
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    common ones to use are asked app and
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    plate solve too then you can also
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    connect it to a planetarium application
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    what is much more important here is the
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    sky Atlas image data and that's what I
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    refer to on the download page that you
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    get this data and then you have actually
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    the planetarium software within Nina
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    when it comes to the plate solving we
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    can actually look for a second at it
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    here in plane wave instruments you find
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    here plate solve 2 so that's one you can
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    download and here in astap home page you
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    can download it here and you also have
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    to download here this star database
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    so that's absolutely needed because
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    that's what it really needs to play
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    itself
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    so it's the it's the software plus the
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    database you have to download and then
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    just follow the install instructions in
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    addition to all of that you also need to
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    download the ascom drivers for all your
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    gear that you're using if you use
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    something very mainstream especially
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    from a camera point of view for example
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    a cwo camera then Nina has already the
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    driver included but anyway it's a good
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    idea especially if the manufacturers
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    have a native ascom driver that you also
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    download that and install that just to
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    be sure once all of that is done we can
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    now actually go to Windows and open Nina
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    the first thing that Nina does when you
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    start it up is it confronts you with a
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    profile and if you leave it on default
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    and you don't add any profiles then
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    what's actually included here is always
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    the gear that last time you used all the
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    settings of last time but you can and we
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    will look at that create more Pro files
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    which is actually interesting if for
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    example you have two different Rigs and
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    you use Nina with both rigs or you have
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    two different telescopes on your rig
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    then you can actually choose here
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    whichever you want and then you click
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    low profile
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    now with softwares we're mostly used
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    having the icons the menu points in a
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    horizontal manner now Nina is here a
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    little bit the rebel and has everything
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    in a vertical manner but you get used to
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    that very soon so I've actually two menu
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    layers this is the main menu layer here
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    you have equipment so here you can
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    activate all your equipment you have Sky
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    Atlas
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    framing flat wizard sequencer Imaging
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    options and plugins and then whatever
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    you select you get here a second line
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    with many item points and with that then
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    you influence what you see here so for
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    to start let's go to options and let's
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    start on top with General so up here you
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    have the different profiles personally I
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    never really cared about profiles as I
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    always had the same rig this might
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    change now so I might really take care
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    of this whatever the profile is you have
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    selected I could now for example call it
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    fra 400 so whatever I now change in this
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    session when I exit it it will save it
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    and if I now for example want to do
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    another one for the cpc800 I can click
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    on that duplicate it now I say load
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    profile and now the other one is active
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    so I can call it CPC 800 and now I can
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    change everything for the CPU C800 and
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    then I have actually two and I can
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    change at the start for whatever
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    telescope and rig that I'm using I can
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    change the language if I want to and
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    then the next important thing is you see
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    here Sky Atlas image folder and Sky
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    survey cache folder so these two things
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    you downloaded beside the install file
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    for Nina you can put it wherever you
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    want but then you actually have to tell
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    Nina here where it is and by the way if
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    you only have one rig and you always use
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    the same then you can actually also this
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    activate here this profile choose a red
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    startup and it doesn't bother you
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    anymore in the section here below you
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    can actually choose two different color
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    schemes one for day for example and one
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    for night you have a lot of presets
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    whatever you like I usually leave it at
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    the default one or you can even actually
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    change everything yourself and the same
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    you can do for alternative color scheme
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    if I want to activate that I go down
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    here to the bottom left and I click this
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    little eye icon this will now be the
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    dark setup when you write at the
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    shooting and also here you could change
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    that below you have the astrometry the
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    side latitude longitude side elevation
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    and what you can actually enter here
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    which is pretty cool is a custom Horizon
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    so when you always shoot from the same
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    place that you know where the Horizon is
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    and where it is blocked these
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    coordinates are also correctly imported
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    from your telescope once you connect it
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    so let's go now to equipment also here a
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    lot of things are imported when you're
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    actually connecting your equipment so
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    for example the pixel slice of your
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    camera the Bayer pattern the bit depth
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    that's all stuff that is actually
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    imported from your camera the same is
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    here with the filter a wheel with the
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    telescope you actually have to enter it
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    manually so here my ass car 400
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    millimeters please also remember if you
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    use a reducer you would have to correct
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    that based on that focal ratio 5.6 and
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    the settle time after slew so how long
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    it actually should wait off the slewing
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    until it makes a photo that you enter
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    here I would recommend to at least leave
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    it by five seconds so that it is
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    absolutely still below here you can
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    enter your planetarium software and the
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    weather for the weather you could
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    actually from each of these providers
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    get an API key and then enter it here
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    and then you could also use the weather
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    as this is anyway very unreliable I
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    don't really see the point here so the
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    next point is autofocus and I have to
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    disappoint you here we will not cover
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    that in this tutorial
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    autofocus is rather a big topic it is
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    crucial that the setup is done correctly
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    and they are absolutely great tutorials
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    out there already who explain that in
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    detail next comes the Dome and if you
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    own a dome then first of all
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    congratulations must be amazing and
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    second of all most likely then you know
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    much much better than me how to fill all
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    of this in next here's something crucial
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    again Imaging that applies for everybody
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    so the first thing you have to decide is
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    how you want to save the images as
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    either as fits as Tiff or as XIs so the
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    file system of pixinsight if you're
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    stacking in pixinsight use xisf if
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    you're not stacking in pixie inside use
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    fits do not use stiff in any case next
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    you can save where you actually want to
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    store your images and then you can
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    actually State how your files should be
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    labeled and that looks really
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    complicated but actually there's a very
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    good list down here at the moment it's
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    State minus then image date then filters
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    and so on so this is the default and I
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    left that but if you want to have other
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    things in there in the file name which
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    are crucial to you you can do that on
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    the right side here we can Define
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    everything about the Meridian flip when
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    it should be done how it should be done
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    then we have some image options and just
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    activate here everything and we will
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    come in the plugin section then to the
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    Hocus Focus next we have here some
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    settings about the sequencer and we deal
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    with that when we actually talk about
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    sequences now the last Point here that
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    we have is plate solving I stated there
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    are two different solutions you can use
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    once you have installed it are you use
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    your plate solve too as my default plate
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    solver and for the blind solver so if
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    played solve 2 fails I use as that so
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    down here I have then to go to a stop
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    and I have to enter where I actually put
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    it and the same I have to do for plate
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    solve two and you could do it with any
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    other of these Solutions on the right
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    side here you can say how long the
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    exposure should be for plate solving
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    from my experience between 5 to 10
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    seconds gets good results the filter I
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    would definitely not leave it at the
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    current because then for example you
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    have a dual narrowband filter and that
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    makes it rather hard for the plate
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    solving software to Plate solve it
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    because there's less Stars so either I
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    would go with no filter or which is the
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    light pollution filter like I use now
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    you can also give it a pointing
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    tolerance and a rotation tolerance which
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    means when will the plate solver
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    actually accept the result stop slewing
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    again and for me here I have two arc
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    minutes that's good enough so far so
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    good we survived this setup round so now
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    we go from here from options to
  • 00:16:33
    equipment and with equipment we see all
  • 00:16:36
    the equipment here we start always with
  • 00:16:38
    the camera so for me it immediately
  • 00:16:41
    shows me my camera it has detected it it
  • 00:16:44
    is by the way important that all your
  • 00:16:46
    equipment that you want to activate now
  • 00:16:48
    here Nina is already turned on and
  • 00:16:52
    connected to your computer so this is
  • 00:16:54
    the case with my camera that's how it
  • 00:16:56
    appears it appears by the way because
  • 00:16:59
    the ascom driver is included in Nina but
  • 00:17:03
    I even as I stated before installed the
  • 00:17:07
    ascom driver that was actually on the
  • 00:17:09
    cwo home page and you see here both my
  • 00:17:13
    cameras which are connected the the
  • 00:17:15
    guide Cam and the real Cam and then
  • 00:17:17
    comes some ascom drivers some generic
  • 00:17:20
    ones and there's also simulator that's
  • 00:17:22
    also something interesting for all these
  • 00:17:25
    equipments there's always also a
  • 00:17:28
    simulator so if you want to start play
  • 00:17:30
    around with Nina and you don't have your
  • 00:17:33
    rig close by you can always choose a
  • 00:17:36
    simulator and see how it would actually
  • 00:17:38
    work if you have connected your camera
  • 00:17:40
    it's on but actually it does not appear
  • 00:17:43
    here then this most likely means that
  • 00:17:46
    you have not installed the ascom driver
  • 00:17:49
    or the camera is not connected but
  • 00:17:52
    otherwise it should appear here so I
  • 00:17:54
    choose now my cwo and I press here the
  • 00:17:58
    connect button takes a moment and then
  • 00:18:01
    actually it's running these screens
  • 00:18:03
    might now look completely different for
  • 00:18:05
    your camera as depending on your camera
  • 00:18:08
    on the ascam drivers other data is shown
  • 00:18:12
    and other options are there to be
  • 00:18:14
    changed so with my ASI 2600 MC what I
  • 00:18:19
    can change down here is default gain the
  • 00:18:22
    default offset and the USB limit up here
  • 00:18:26
    the due heater is by default already on
  • 00:18:28
    now I can say I want to cool it down my
  • 00:18:31
    target temperature is -10 degrees I
  • 00:18:34
    could change that and when I'm actually
  • 00:18:36
    finished I could also warm it up again
  • 00:18:40
    here now what you actually can see here
  • 00:18:42
    with the graph is the temperature which
  • 00:18:44
    slowly slowly goes down now and here we
  • 00:18:47
    actually see the cooler power that is
  • 00:18:50
    needed to cool the camera down and you
  • 00:18:53
    can also see up here how the sensor
  • 00:18:55
    temperature slowly slowly goes down we
  • 00:18:58
    let the camera now cool and we move on
  • 00:19:01
    next is the filter wheel and by the way
  • 00:19:04
    if you do not have certain things here
  • 00:19:06
    you just move on there's no requirement
  • 00:19:08
    to turn on anything also here my cwo
  • 00:19:12
    filter wheel is peering otherwise I will
  • 00:19:15
    actually find it here then I switch it
  • 00:19:17
    on
  • 00:19:18
    it always gives you here a success
  • 00:19:20
    message that you know that something
  • 00:19:23
    worked or any other case that it didn't
  • 00:19:26
    work so I see now here all the filter
  • 00:19:28
    names and if I want to change it you can
  • 00:19:30
    do that let's go to the opt along change
  • 00:19:33
    and the filter wheel changes it and it's
  • 00:19:35
    done there's nothing more to do here so
  • 00:19:37
    let's move on to focuser again switch on
  • 00:19:40
    it's already in there you see next
  • 00:19:42
    success message the focus is connected
  • 00:19:45
    also here I have my target position the
  • 00:19:48
    maximum step size and I can now either
  • 00:19:51
    with the arrows or I can change the
  • 00:19:53
    target position I can say it should be
  • 00:19:56
    36 000 I say move and it moves and it's
  • 00:20:00
    done next would be a rotator I do not
  • 00:20:02
    have a rotator so I can move on and now
  • 00:20:05
    comes the most important part the
  • 00:20:07
    telescope or better the mount also here
  • 00:20:10
    it tells me already my Avalon now the
  • 00:20:13
    telescope is sometimes a little bit more
  • 00:20:15
    difficult first of all around the
  • 00:20:17
    complex as comp driver is opening up and
  • 00:20:20
    second of all sometimes they have a
  • 00:20:22
    little bit of synchronization issue for
  • 00:20:24
    example here my telescope things were
  • 00:20:27
    somewhere different than Neenah things
  • 00:20:30
    and actually you know always Nina is
  • 00:20:33
    right so here's a I want to sync it from
  • 00:20:36
    Nina to telescope so Nina tells now the
  • 00:20:40
    telescope where we are this was
  • 00:20:42
    successful and now everything is
  • 00:20:44
    connected so I could obviously enter
  • 00:20:46
    here now some manual coordinates and
  • 00:20:50
    could slew to it but there's more
  • 00:20:52
    comfortable ways we will see that later
  • 00:20:54
    on I can park my telescope and I can
  • 00:20:57
    slow here with this direction button but
  • 00:21:00
    at the moment all that is important is
  • 00:21:02
    that it is connected so what comes next
  • 00:21:04
    next comes the guider so as a guider I
  • 00:21:07
    have PhD installed if it is installed
  • 00:21:11
    you can simply press connect
  • 00:21:14
    and it will automatically open PhD
  • 00:21:16
    success obviously I'm inside so there's
  • 00:21:20
    not too many stars inside but it
  • 00:21:22
    automatically opens it automatically
  • 00:21:24
    connects and it's ready now when you
  • 00:21:27
    install PHT by the way there's separate
  • 00:21:30
    tutorials because that again is a rather
  • 00:21:33
    complex software so please if you're new
  • 00:21:36
    at PhD take your time look at in-depth
  • 00:21:40
    tutorials but now in relation to Nina
  • 00:21:43
    there is one option you have to select
  • 00:21:45
    in tools here enable server because
  • 00:21:48
    that's needed that Nina and PhD can
  • 00:21:52
    connect so with that we will minimize
  • 00:21:54
    that and PhD will actually send all its
  • 00:21:58
    data off The Guiding results to Nina so
  • 00:22:02
    we don't really have to go in PhD if we
  • 00:22:04
    don't want to next one switch and I have
  • 00:22:07
    a little Pegasus Astro power box I can
  • 00:22:11
    also turn that on and here we go so I
  • 00:22:13
    can actually decide how much my two
  • 00:22:16
    heaters should heat I can turn off and
  • 00:22:19
    on the power and now if you have an
  • 00:22:21
    automatic flat panel you could also turn
  • 00:22:23
    that on if you have any weather sensors
  • 00:22:26
    so you could turn that on the Dome
  • 00:22:28
    control and some safety monitoring so
  • 00:22:31
    now we're ready let's go back to the
  • 00:22:33
    camera let's see as you can see the
  • 00:22:35
    cooler power is now at 85 percent and
  • 00:22:38
    the sensor temperature is at minus 10.3
  • 00:22:41
    degrees Celsius so the camera is ready
  • 00:22:44
    for usage so now once we have all turned
  • 00:22:48
    on what do we do now now let's assume we
  • 00:22:51
    want to shoot something and in this
  • 00:22:53
    tutorial we will do everything manually
  • 00:22:56
    controlled so no sequence this comes
  • 00:22:59
    later so we go to the sky Atlas and we
  • 00:23:02
    look for something so it's still the
  • 00:23:05
    time of Orion let's look for it m42 here
  • 00:23:09
    it is and here you see my customized
  • 00:23:12
    Horizon here's my house
  • 00:23:15
    that's why on this side it's a little
  • 00:23:17
    bit blocked and you see it will be
  • 00:23:20
    already too late for Orion it almost
  • 00:23:23
    goes down but let's anyway for the sake
  • 00:23:26
    of it choose it now you can now either
  • 00:23:28
    directly slew to it or we can say we go
  • 00:23:32
    to framing assist and that's what I
  • 00:23:34
    would recommend okay and here it is so
  • 00:23:37
    given that I have actually given the
  • 00:23:39
    focal lengths 400 millimeters pixel size
  • 00:23:43
    it knows how big actually my field of
  • 00:23:47
    view is and here is Orion so now I can
  • 00:23:49
    obviously say Well it actually might
  • 00:23:52
    look better if I put my camera
  • 00:23:55
    vertically so let's do that and yes you
  • 00:23:58
    obviously also have to do that now in
  • 00:24:00
    the rig so given I have no automatic
  • 00:24:03
    rotator
  • 00:24:05
    through them manually then I can also
  • 00:24:07
    move it let's say I want to have this
  • 00:24:10
    completely down here okay let's say
  • 00:24:12
    that's how I want to have it now I'm
  • 00:24:14
    going to say slew and center
  • 00:24:18
    [Music]
  • 00:24:22
    and now it's finished with slewing and
  • 00:24:26
    now it actually does the plate solving
  • 00:24:28
    so it took now an exposure
  • 00:24:30
    and will now actually compare it if it's
  • 00:24:33
    really where it should be now obviously
  • 00:24:35
    we can stop this given in the basement
  • 00:24:38
    probably it will not find it right but
  • 00:24:41
    it would now compare it and if it's not
  • 00:24:44
    correct then it would re-slew as long
  • 00:24:47
    until it's 100 correct now the other
  • 00:24:50
    cool part is that we have actually
  • 00:24:53
    rotated it but are we sure that now with
  • 00:24:57
    also the the angle the telescope pass
  • 00:25:01
    with the equatorial Mount that will
  • 00:25:03
    really
  • 00:25:04
    in this angle if we want to know we can
  • 00:25:07
    press here determine rotation from
  • 00:25:09
    camera it will again take an exposure
  • 00:25:12
    and plate solve it and then show it
  • 00:25:15
    exactly in which angle it really is and
  • 00:25:18
    so if that's not what we want it we can
  • 00:25:21
    then actually correct the rotation on
  • 00:25:23
    the telescope and try this for as long
  • 00:25:26
    until we really have it the way rotated
  • 00:25:29
    that we want to make the exposure once
  • 00:25:32
    we have done that we go to Imaging and
  • 00:25:35
    now the Imaging section is really our
  • 00:25:38
    huge control center no matter if you do
  • 00:25:41
    it now manually or if it would run
  • 00:25:43
    actually a sequence this is where we
  • 00:25:47
    constantly check on the sequence when we
  • 00:25:49
    want to if everything runs the way we
  • 00:25:52
    want so we have here a camera section we
  • 00:25:55
    can influence the cooling we see the
  • 00:25:57
    cooler power the sensor temperature we
  • 00:26:00
    see here the filter and we can change it
  • 00:26:02
    for example now that we're at Orion we
  • 00:26:05
    arrived we could actually change the
  • 00:26:07
    filter to the antlion then we have here
  • 00:26:09
    the focuser let's assume we're not using
  • 00:26:12
    autofocus we can actually simply move it
  • 00:26:15
    here with a pattern of mask until it's
  • 00:26:18
    correct we see exactly where the
  • 00:26:19
    telescope is pointing to we have here
  • 00:26:22
    some monitoring of the HFR so that we
  • 00:26:26
    see if our star size is getting smaller
  • 00:26:29
    or bigger we have some additional
  • 00:26:31
    statistics and in the middle here we
  • 00:26:33
    have the main window where we actually
  • 00:26:36
    see then the effective pictures we can
  • 00:26:39
    obviously make them bigger make them
  • 00:26:41
    smaller we can use Auto stretch or not
  • 00:26:43
    and in the bottom part here we can
  • 00:26:46
    switch to other things for example
  • 00:26:48
    autofocus we can do here plate solving
  • 00:26:51
    and we couldn't even do here a polar
  • 00:26:54
    alignment in the bottom part here we see
  • 00:26:57
    the guiding for the most important part
  • 00:26:59
    here is now this area if we shoot
  • 00:27:01
    without the sequence because here I can
  • 00:27:04
    now say exposure time for example 10
  • 00:27:07
    seconds this is the filter I want to use
  • 00:27:09
    spinning and now I just say Loop it save
  • 00:27:13
    it and then it actually would take
  • 00:27:14
    pictures by the way this whole field
  • 00:27:17
    here is completely customizable so you
  • 00:27:20
    can add here as much information or as
  • 00:27:23
    less information as you want you can
  • 00:27:25
    move each of these tiles to another
  • 00:27:28
    place give it as much space as you feel
  • 00:27:31
    that is needed so this setup is
  • 00:27:33
    completely up to you and that's
  • 00:27:35
    obviously another one of the great
  • 00:27:38
    features of Nina that I have this
  • 00:27:40
    possibility now once we have actually
  • 00:27:42
    made our pictures
  • 00:27:45
    now we can actually stop Cooling and we
  • 00:27:48
    can actually warm the camera again
  • 00:27:51
    this time we deconnect everything else
  • 00:27:58
    and by may have done that we can
  • 00:28:01
    actually exit
  • 00:28:04
    okay and that was it for part one so
  • 00:28:08
    you're now at the stage where you can
  • 00:28:10
    actually install Nina and play around
  • 00:28:12
    with it and use it in a manual mode and
  • 00:28:15
    take some shots in part two we will look
  • 00:28:18
    at the sequences how to create them to
  • 00:28:20
    use them and to modify them
  • 00:28:23
    and in part three we will look at some
  • 00:28:25
    Advanced modification you can do in
  • 00:28:27
    Neenah and at the plugins to make sure
  • 00:28:30
    that you not miss part two and three
  • 00:28:32
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    better join my patreon page and then you
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    page I will also add some templates for
  • 00:28:44
    sequences as well as some written
  • 00:28:46
    documents of what we have covered right
  • 00:28:48
    now see you next time and clear skies
  • 00:28:51
    [Music]
  • 00:29:02
    thank you
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  • astrophotography
  • automation software
  • ASI Air
  • installation
  • guiding
  • camera settings
  • sequence
  • advanced modifications
  • PHD2