Keep warm indoors, and sleep all night – the automated system will collect light all night. Automating your astro-imaging is getting easier and easier all the time. New hardware and software solutions become available for the dedicated amateur astronomer. In this post, I will tell how I have used the software NINA – Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy to automate my imaging setup. With the automated setup, I can start up all the equipment in 5 minutes. Then I select and start a premade session for the night. That’s it. I went back inside waiting for the subs to show up. Here is what the session script does: Slew telescope to target Recenter and rotates FOV to requested position based on plate solve. Perform autofocus Calibrates and starts the autoguider […]