Today I am happy to announce the opening of the N.I.N.A. spreadshop where you can buy T-Shirts, sweaters, bags, cups and other nice items with the awesome N.I.N.A. Logo.
Every item bought will generate a small kick back for me, so if you want to support my work for the project while also getting a nice T-Shirt to wear to your next star party, this is your chance!
For the first two weeks you even get a discount of 15% on everything!
N.I.N.A. Version 1.9 is starting its Beta phase now! A lot of quality of life improvements have been added as well as a bunch of new features. To name a few – Sequence improvements (pre checks and end of sequence options) – Profiles are now saved separately and you can backup each profile individually – Star Detection has been improved. – OSC Camera users can now auto stretch each channel inidividually resulting in a much better preview – Autofocus got a bunch of new failsafe settings to ensure best focus positions – FLI Native Camera support – ASCOM Switches as well as PrimaLuceLab EAGLE control – ASTAP as a plate solver – and a lot more…
A detailed changelog of all the new stuff and improvements can be found here.
Additonally to that, a new documentation is in the works. (Get a sneak peek) If you want to contribute there you can find detailed information how to do so here.
Last but not least a special thank you to all the supporters and contributors. You all make this project possible!
Hey everyone, I am more than happy to announce, that N.I.N.A. Version 1.8 will be officially released! This is a huge update with massive quality of life improvements, bugfixes and lots of new stuff!
Special Thanks
To everyone that participates in our community! Be it by discussing about new features, providing feedback, reporting issues, helping to resolve them, directly contributing code or giving financial support – everything is highly appreciated and will lead to a better overall product. Thank you!
Feature Overview
One of our community members and contributors Stanley made an awesome summary video of the upcoming features. Please go check it out!
About Auto Update
Also part of this update is the new infrastructure for the auto update and this whole new homepage which you are currently looking at. Previously the auto updater inside the application relied on the bitbucket API and was rather static in its function. For 1.8 this will change and also enable the application to provide not only release versions, but also beta and nightly builds for some early previews. These can be activated by switching the auto update source inside the options. As version 1.7 still relies on the old auto update mechanism, there will be a two step upgrade when using the auto updater. First there will be an intermediate version 1.7.1 installed, which will make it possible to switch to the new infrastructure to update to the new 1.8 version. The alternative is to just directly download the 1.8 version from the download section manually and just install it.
I hope you will enjoy these new capabilities.
Wish you all clear skies and happy imaging, Stefan
I am happy to announce the start of the Beta Phase for the Release 1.8. This is the time to try out all the new features we added and fix all the issues we encounter for them. Once everything is ironed out, the official release can take place 🙂
Please find a list of all the awesome things we have worked on below!
Features
Sequence
Enable/Disable sequence entries
Plate Solving
Added interface for All Sky Platesolver
Camera Control
Altair native driver support
ToupTek native driver support
QHYCCD native driver support
Added support for anti-dew heaters in ZWO cameras
On ASCOM drivers support for setting readout modes
Framing Assistant
Add SkyAtlas image source which allows for framing based on offline SkyAtlas data
Flat Wizard
Supports you taking flats
Imaging
Added a list of manual focus targets (bright stars) that are currently visible in the sky
Framing Assistant Offline Sky Chart
Based on Sky Atlas data a basic sky chart showing objects can be displayed
Instead of dragging the rectangular through the initial image like in the other framing sources
the background itself will be moved like in an orrery
Guiding
Added Synchronized PHD2 Guider (experimental)
Synchronized PHD2 Guider will synchronize your Dither requests between multiple instances of N.I.N.A.
Known limitations: Dithering will happen every possible synchronized frame and is not changeable
Auto-Update Channels
Previously the auto update was always just looking for released versions. Now multiple sources (Release, Beta and Nightly) can be selected and the auto updater updates to the respective version accordingls.
Additionally the changelog for the new version will now be displayed prior to updating, too.
Bugfixes
Corrected Max Binning level for ASI Cameras
Focuser move command fixed where lots of move commands where sent by accident
Rotation value now considered for sequence import|export
Canon: Fixed bulb mode for exposure times <30s
Canon: All shutter speeds now correctly added when step set custom function is set to 1/3
Meridian Flip window does not get stuck anymore when clicking on cancel
Log Level will now be set on application start based on profile settings.
ASI Cameras will not shut down their cooling and progress on opening multiple instances of NINA
Improvements
Clear button for PHD2 Graph
Hide camera cooler controls when not available for current camera model
Zero Floating point numbers now displayed as "0.00" instead of ".00"
Show better exception message when an ASCOM Interop Exception occurs
Canon: Errors are now shown to users in a readable format if any occur
Removed hard requirement of ASCOM platform. Application can now function without it
Improved UI Style.
Tweaked some color themes for more consistent colors
Better spacing between elements to reduce wasted space
Two new background colors to better pronounce some ui elements
Reworked Imaging tab to have a common style.
Imaging tab tools pane (to hide/show panels) moved to the top and split into two separate categories
Profiles don’t get overriden when using multiple instances of N.I.N.A. with each one having a separate profile active
Autostretch replaced by a better midpoint transformation function
Autostretch now has black point clipping options
Vastly improved Image Statistics calculation.
Estimated Finish Time will automatically update in the sequencing view
Added copy button for existing color schemas to copy over to custom and alternative custom schemas
Framing tab:
Moved coordinates out of framing boxes to not obscure target
Added a new button to be able to add the framing target to a sequence instead of replacing
Control to adjust opacity of framing box
Improved Framing Assistant and Sequence Target Textboxes by giving up to 50 target hints based on input to select from
Framing Assistant now can annotate DSO
Attempt to start PHD2 and connect all equipment when connecting to guider and PHD2 is not running
Adaptive Cooling: Duration for cool/warm camera is now a minimum duration. In case the cooler cannot keep up with the set duration, the application will wait for the camera to reach the checkpoints instead of just continuing setting new targets without the camera having any chance to reach those in the timeframe.
Special Thanks
The N.I.N.A. team would like to thank
Nick Smith from Altair Astro for providing a GPCAM2 290C to integrate Altair SDK
Elias Erdnuess from Astroshop.eu for providing multiple Toupcam Cameras to integrate ToupTek SDK
The staff at QHYCCD dealer Cloud Break Optics for lending a QHY183C to integrate QHYCCD SDK
These items helped a lot during development and testing.
Thank you for your support!
I am happy to welcome you on our brand new homepage for the N.I.N.A. project. Feel free to look around. You can get lots of information and documentation about the project, as well as the latest setup builds to install and try out N.I.N.A.
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