2022 Channel Update!
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Is he alive? Yep! I have a lot in the works and even more planned. Please watch this short channel update to see where I have been, what is planned, and how you can provide feedback to the process.
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Good to have your back Chad. Happy to see you're all healthy. Really looking forward to see what you got going.
Thanks for the note. Glad to be back, and ready to go!
Glad to see your smiling face and that your family is doing good.
Great to be "back"!
Great to see u back glad! And glad to hear ur family recovered well from Covid. Cant wait to see more Tutorials! Cheers and CS!
Thanks for watching! Happy to be back and working on more content.
Welcome back Chad! Glad everyone is doing fine!
Thanks George!
He lives! Glad everything is good in your world. I look forward to more content!
LOL! Yep, I finally crawled out from under that rock.
Glad to see you back. Look forward to upcoming content.
Much appreciated!
Glad to see you're back Chad! Thanks for your awesome vids! Bob
More to come!
Its great to have you back and I am glad everybody is well. I was getting worried Chad. Looking forward to your NINA video’s.
To some degree I didn't realize how much I needed the break (albeit not really a break most of the time). I'm definitely glad to start back though.
We're with you buddy. Pace yourself - no rush. And thanks for all that you do - your hard work has helped me a lot .
Thx!
Welcome back! Excited to see the Hocus Focus plug-in as I mentioned to you on Facebook. You’ve truly taught me everything I know about NINA and I appreciate it.
Absolutely! Can't wait to get some more videos done and out the door!
Nice to have you back. Cheers
Good to be back!
Looking forward for new stuff.
You and me both! (and maybe a few thousand other people too) :) LOL
Your vids are the best! I don't think I would have had the confidence to jump right in with NINA without them. You made it so much easier.
I always love to hear stories like this where people had a much easier entry into getting NINA going because I was able to help. Shows that hard work pays off!
Good to know all's well, glad to have you back. With all the new things in NINA I'm a bit lost as to what I really need and what is just window dressing.
I know. I need to do a quick "State of the Plugins" video. Just run through the high level of each one, then do detailed videos on others that need it later on.
Horray!.. Thought for a minute there you were taken by the aliens!!.. I admit i was a little worried!.. Glad your back and all good!
Hey Troy, Maybe I was taken... I cannot confirm or deny... :)
God to see you back!
Thanks! It feels good!
Hey Chad,
Your content is always awesome.
Take the time you need to create those videos. Even though we're eagerly waiting for the next one :)
I appreciate it. I get lots of messages/emails that say, "Hope you are well and things are ok. Oh, and BTW - are you going to cover Hocus Focus soon?" LOL :) It is all coming. It just takes time unfortunately.
Glad to see all is well, love the style of your content
Much appreciated!
Welcome back 😎
Thanks!
Happy to hear all is well with you and the family, Chad! Oh, and I think you missed a couple plugins... and yes you _DO_ need them all LOL
Tell me about it. At least I have had a bit of imaging time along the way, so I am not truly behind... except for the video part anyway. :)
looking forward to a video on solar imaging. good to see you back.
Solar is a lot of fun, relatively quick to process (unless doing animations), and lets me use the telescope during the day! (that's the best part)
@@PatriotAstro daytime astro is what im after. just not sure what equipment to buy. a dedicated scope or a quark.
@@antonypage1442 kind of depends what you have available to you. Refractor with 80mm or less aperture and you just need a quark. Over 80mm and you also need an Energy Rejection Filter (ERF) which can often be something like a simple 2 inch Astronomik L1. Larger apertures start pushing the need for external front mounted ERF which are pricey. If using an SCT, or anything with mirrors internally, you are really out of the Quark HA world and into just white light solar with front mounted film/glass (you can get an ERF that shrinks the aperture in order to do HA but they are ridiculous in cost.) While white light viewing is ok and cheaper, it gets old about 1 session into it (especially during this solar minimum. HA is where it is at. :) So pricing it all out based on what you need to add to your existing can help you decide if dedicated scope makes more sense. Oh, BTW, the other benefit of a quark is potability between multiple scopes.
@@PatriotAstrothanks Chad. I do have a 80mm refractor. So I think a quark would be the best way to go. More research needed I think. Thanks for your input. You are amazing. Wouldn't be able to do what I can without watching UA-cam videos. Yours and every other astrophotographer out there. Keep up the good work and please never stop creating content.
@@antonypage1442 That's the plan! :)
Great vids Chad, really informative and helpful for us NINA fanboys and girls.
1 request, 1 constructive criticism.
1. DIY Meridian Flip - Awesome plugin. Ability to set forced guiding calibration, autofocus, slew and center exactly how I want and trust them to work after a flip is a MASSIVE new improvement. Love it.
2. Please disable the auto gain on your lavaliere mic or audio recording software. Or maybe gain clip your audio in post to keep it at a similar level. Every time you stop talking and start again your voice volume is very high and dips immediately, its super distracting and detracts from the video.
Please dont take point 2 the wrong way, your content is excellent and valued.
Clear skies Sir. 🤩
First off, I'm super hurt... :) Just Kidding, thanks for the 'feedback! Three Points: 1. I need to try this plugin myself. For me, my flips have been flawless, so other than making a video for it, I'm sort of "If it isn't broke, don't fix it". 2. Are you hearing this in older and current new videos? Is it all the time, or just during voiceover? I've been trying to address some of this along the way, but thought I had most of it sorted more recently. I know the older ones, especially the voiceovers, were pretty bad. and 3. I won't take it the wrong way. If you don't want to listen because the quality of the audio is bad, I need to clean it up, or people may be missing the value of the content behind the crappy audio. :) Clear Skies!
@@PatriotAstro Hi, It's certainly when you are talking to the camera using the lavaliere. It may be a 'feature' on the mic that can not be disabled, but that would seem silly. After nearly every pause in your script, the volume jumps right up and then dips again quickly. Like it's trying to up the gain to find your voice when there is nothing but background hum and then drops its quickly when you start speaking to avoid clipping the audio. Good luck solving it. Just me being picky though, I won't stop enjoying your content :)
Regarding the Auto meridian flip, I have found that my PHD guiding pulses should be inverted after the meridian flip otherwise it tries to counter the drift incorrectly on the dec axis. But selecting the 'reverse dec output after meridian flip' in the PHD settings doesn't actually solve the problem, so I have to wake up at the flip time and re-force guiding calibration manually (annoying). The DIY flip allows you to put 'force calibration' guiding steps into the sequence after the flip, as well as anything else you want to force to happen at that time. Super useful!
Thanks for the great vids :) Clear skies
@@Crimitube Makes sense on the DIY flip stuff. I'll take a look myself soon (hopefully). I have another mic here somewhere, I might have to try that soon. I also have the option to record the audio independently and merge it in so that is another option. It may take some time and a few videos but I'll try to sort it out. Thanks for the feedback details!
So glad to see you back. Happy that you are healthy. You have taught me more about NINA than all the other channels that I follow combined. Looking forward to the new content.
Glad to hear it Steve. Thanks for watching! I'm certainly happy to be back as well!
Glad your well , I to got the covid at the new year wife too, Was not to bad cough and a bit of fever for both, if I had to get it glad that was it.. Looking forward to more videos
Happy to hear your cases were minor and that you are both feeling better!
Great to see you back and glad to hear all your family have recovered from Covid., that must have been a tough time, Really looking forward to your videos. Best wishes Dan
Thanks for the thoughts Dan. I'm looking forward to them as well. :)
Great to hear that you and the family are alright and can’t wait to see the new videos.
Greetings from Belgium-Europe and clear skies.
Grtz Django 😎
Thanks! Greetings!
Wow - that's a huge list of topics and I want to watch them all! Maybe the NINA devs will be kind enough to not add anything new until you've caught up ? :-) haha
That's the problem though, those pesky NINA devs, ... always potting against me with their new features! So many plans that I can only imaging that others I haven't considered yet actually push their way into the mix and cut the line. Thanks for watching!
I am very interested in Nina. In particular the groundstation plugin and integration with telegram
Out of curiosity, what were you hoping to do via Telegram integration? Just the basics, like receiving messages there. Or were you hoping to do something a bit bigger via a Telegram Bot. What I ran into was the fact that Telegram Bots do not react to their own messages or messages from other Telegram Bots. Since the plugin sends via the Bot mechanism, I think we are limited to just receiving Messages and Failure Events. This may be all you are looking for anyway though... :) Let me know.
@@PatriotAstro In your video where you explained GroundStation you had explained the integration with Pushover well. The same thing, so to receive only alerts or errors I wanted to do it with telegram. Then how to configure telegram or telegram bot and configure Nina also functions.
@@mirkotamb OK, makes sense. Let me see what I can do. I'm still working on a couple things so it may take a bit, but I added it to the list and could be a faster/short video.
@@PatriotAstro Thanks Chad
How to get PixInsight plugin for Nina to work.
I 'started' that video 2.5 months ago! Time to get back to it, or at this point... re-do it. :(
@@PatriotAstro I use the EZ script live stack on PI now but would be nice to use the plugin for Nina. For some reason it doesn’t work through Nina though. Thanks for all the work you do Chad!