N.I.N.A. Simulator & Instructions
Astro PM bridges the gap between planning and execution through a direct cloud integration with N.I.N.A. Plan your projects, sync them to the cloud, and let the Astro PM plugin schedule and image your entire night — automatically.
Build your projects in Astro PM with target coordinates, mosaic layouts, rotation, and detailed exposure plans for every filter.
One click pushes your projects to the Astro PM cloud — coordinates, rotation, mosaic panels, and full exposure plans travel together.
The Astro PM plugin automatically schedules your entire night — best-fitting targets to your imaging window based on altitude, moon, and remaining exposures.
All your targets and exposure plans are honored automatically. The plugin handles target switching, filter changes, and mosaic panels — you just hit start.
A dedicated N.I.N.A. plugin that pulls your synced targets straight from the Astro PM cloud. Authenticate once with a machine-bound token — then browse and select targets from inside N.I.N.A.
Filter your cloud targets by location/observatory, telescope, and camera. Great for those with multiple remote setups and wanting to push targets to just one location.
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Preview your entire imaging night before the sun goes down. The Simulator builds an optimized schedule from your cloud targets using your location, telescope, and camera settings.
It factors in altitude constraints, moon separation and avoidance, remaining exposures, and darkness windows — then generates a timeline showing exactly which targets and filters will run, and when.
Adjust scheduling priorities by dragging to reorder: lowest peak altitude, setting soonest, most remaining work, or constrained windows. Toggle dither intervals, filter switching cadence, and bonus imaging — then simulate to see the plan update in real time.
Drop the Astro PM Instructions block into N.I.N.A.’s Advanced Sequencer and your simulated schedule becomes a live imaging plan. The instruction set takes over your night — slewing to each target, switching filters, and capturing exposures exactly as the simulator planned.
A built-in nightly graph shows your full schedule at a glance with color-coded filter blocks across the altitude timeline. Track progress as each target completes its allocated subs, with real-time status updates for the current target, filter, and coordinates.
Four custom sequence modules that plug directly into N.I.N.A.’s Advanced Sequencer, giving you full control over how Astro PM drives your imaging sessions.
A container that runs once per day. Place your nightly imaging instructions inside — the loop handles the daily reset so your sequence can run unattended across multiple nights.
Runs continuously throughout the night, cycling through your scheduled targets. Handles target transitions, filter changes, and exposure sequencing until dawn or completion.
The core instruction block. Loads your simulated schedule into the Advanced Sequencer — targets, filters, exposures, and timing — ready to execute as a complete imaging plan.
Pulls the latest target data from your Astro PM cloud account. Add or update projects during the day and your changes are available in N.I.N.A. with a single refresh.
Targets also land in N.I.N.A.’s Framing Wizard with coordinates, rotation, and mosaic panels already populated — ready to slew, plate-solve, and start capturing.
Just locate the top pull-down, refresh your cloud targets, and then load it into the Framing Wizard. Ready to use in an advanced sequence or target scheduler.
