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NINA Manually

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My computer is only connected to my camera. So, I have to pick the 3 points to use NINA's 3-point alignment. How do I choose points 2 and 3? Just go anywhere that is 10% in any direction?

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hatflyer wrote: Sat Jul 30, 2022 2:33 pm My computer is only connected to my camera. So, I have to pick the 3 points to use NINA's 3-point alignment. How do I choose points 2 and 3? Just go anywhere that is 10% in any direction?

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In order to do an polar alignment with NINA you would need to have the computer also connected to the telescope mount.

What mount do you have?
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Re: NINA Manually

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Gordon is correct. For NINA's 3 point polar alignment to work, NINA has to control the mount movement. I would ask the same question, what mount do you have?
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Gordon wrote: Sat Jul 30, 2022 4:48 pm
hatflyer wrote: Sat Jul 30, 2022 2:33 pm My computer is only connected to my camera. So, I have to pick the 3 points to use NINA's 3-point alignment. How do I choose points 2 and 3? Just go anywhere that is 10% in any direction?

Thanks.
In order to do an polar alignment with NINA you would need to have the computer also connected to the telescope mount.

What mount do you have?
I have a manual mount. NINA in "Manual" mode seems to work fine, but I just need to know where to manually slew to for shots 2 and 3. Can u recall how your mount was changed to get subsequent points? Was it around 1 axis or does it seem variable?
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I have never tried to do it manually and I can't remember the motion the mount took to do the platesolve.

My suggestion would be to contact Stefan Berg (the author) using the discord for NINA.

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Gordon wrote: Sat Jul 30, 2022 6:07 pm I have never tried to do it manually and I can't remember the motion the mount took to do the platesolve.

My suggestion would be to contact Stefan Berg (the author) using the discord for NINA.

Getting Help or Helping Out#
The N.I.N.A.'s Discord chat server is a great way to chat with the creator Stefan Berg the N.I.N.A. contributors and fellow users. Ask questions, share your photos, make suggestions, and help other users.

https://discord.com/invite/fwpmHU4
Will do. Thanks!
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