NINA - Improve Your Sky Atlas Searches (and More)
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- I pulled together a quick video of how I use NINA Sky Atlas filters to limit the amount of junk that comes up. There are some challenges when using NINA's filter mechanism but this should help you find valid targets more quickly without the need for endless scrolling. I also introduce the use of a N.I.N.A. horizon file as well as Telescopius.com for target selection and NINA Sequence import.
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0:00 - Introduction
0:20 - The Problem
0:50 - Identifying Declination
2:16 - Applying Declination
2:38 - Identify and Apply RA
5:25 - A Subsequent Problem
6:35 - Another Fix
10:02 - Custom Horizon Files
13:08 - Telescopius.com
14:12 - Custom Lists
14:56 - Import the Sequence
Great video! No… I take that back… ALL your videos are interesting, very helpful and well produced!
Much appreciated! Your content is spot on! Very well delivered and just the right speed and amount detail.
Well done!
Thank you soooo much! That's all I really want, to help people like I have been helped over the years.
I honestly really had no idea how to use the Sky Atlas. I've always just found my targets in Stellarium, then found the Messier catalog number, then placed it in the Sky Atlas to move to the framing assistant. But now that I actually can see that this is ... usable! I may give it a shot! Thanks!
1 thing at a time, right?! :)
Thank you so much for all your tutorials on the nightly Nina ….❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thanks so much! Hope they help.
Thank you for this great video which greatly facilitates the search for targets.
Good heavens to be able to use it...
Clouds, Clouds, ... everywhere I look, Clouds!
Great information again, thank you 👍👍
Glad it helped!
Excellent information. I really like the tips.
Great! Hope it helps speed up your target selection process.
Very useful thanks 👍
Glad you found it useful. Clear Skies!
How to preview photos so that they are black and white just like yours. When I download the repository, there are colorful thumbnails of the objects.
Neat Video I am not been able to load the images is there some where I need to download them. Your advice would be appreciated as i am new ti NINA thanks
The sky atlas is a download from the Nina website. I ‘think’ it is at the bottom of the download page.
Great video!!! How do get the pictures of the object to show?
You need to install the "Sky Atlas Image Repository". Go to the NINA Website and then to Downloads. Scroll to the bottom to find the link. It is a 1GB file. Once installed on your system, on the profile options page in NINA, tell it where the directory is for the Sky Atlas and it will show up during your searches.
Very helpful. Is there any way to do a search for RA from 20:00 to 04:00?
unfortunately not without running 2 searches. It doesn't want to let you cross-over the 24:00 mark. You 'may' have some luck just setting 20:00 and leaving the second parameter blank though. (Or try out the telescopius website and import into nina from there)
Can you tell me a little bit more about the phd2 calibration, why is there a recommended position to perform the calibration? Do you have a video where you talk more about that? Thanks. Your Videos are great!
I'm hoping to get to this one soon but need many more clear nights than I am getting lately. Basically, the guidance that tells you to calibrate near the 'Celestial Equator' has to do with (mostly) the fact that you will get enough 'predictable' movement in the stars such that calibration will be accurate. If you instead chose something near the pole as an example, things here can rotate in a very tight circle slowly over a full 24 hour period but near the ecliptic you will see about 15 degrees of movement per hour.
@@PatriotAstro I understand, Just something to think about: it would be a cool feature which could be added to your advaced seqence startup template. For example in the startup-sequence somewhere after the autofocus routine and initial sync, the telescope could slew somewhere to the ecliptic perform an phd2 calibartion ('force calibration') and then it goes one with the next default startup sequence steps. With this modification the automation process would ensure that a clean phd2 calibration for guiding has been performed. Am I right?
when i do a search i get no pictures. I have downloaded the Image Repository but still have no images.....i am not sure what i could be doing wrong....i am confused.......
You need to make sure you download the skyatlas files, extract them to a folder on the system, then in your Nina options, set that folder as the skyatlas location.
i did download the image repository
Can you save your filter settings so you don’t have to do it every time you set up?
im so confused by all this in nina
when i want to test my stuff during the day like performing a auto meridian flip i want to be able to see what objects are about to cross the meridian line looking south from the UK
at night its easier using stellarium as i can visually see all objects that are close to the meridian line in real time but what i dont know is there a setting to be able to see everything like you would at night in stellarium but during the day in real time ?
as stellarium only shows blue sky in daytime
If you look in NINAs sky atlas, you should find objects where the vertical NOW line is just to the left of the top of the highest point in the objects curve (this is the meridian flip point for that object (highest point in the sky). Once you locate that object, you can use it to test the meridian flip.
@@PatriotAstro huge thanks il give it ago :)
Just found you today and subscribed. would like to have a little help creating a .haz file for non-computer mind like mine. As yet you havent downloaded many videos but each and everyone has helped me enormously!!
I'll try to pull something together soon and publish it. Maybe even this week!