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title: Connecting NINA to Astro PM
description: "Two pieces of information connect a NINA installation to your planning: your **sync token** (who you are) and an **imaging system** (which rig this machine is). Both live in the plugin’s Options page. ### Enter the Sync Token Copy the…"
url: "https://astro-pm.com/docs/connecting-nina-astro-pm/"
updated: "2026-07-12"
category: Astro PM NINA Guide
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# Connecting NINA to Astro PM

Two pieces of information connect a NINA installation to your planning: your **sync token** (who you are) and an **imaging system** (which rig this machine is). Both live in the plugin’s Options page.

### Enter the Sync Token

Copy the token from the desktop app’s NINA Sync settings and paste it into the plugin Options. Once connected, the Options page can list your cloud targets with their status, location, scope, and camera – a quick sanity check that the pipe is working.

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### Select the Imaging System

Choose which [imaging system](/docs/imaging-systems/) this NINA installation represents. This selection does two important things:

- **Filters targets** – only projects for this rig’s site, telescope, and camera are scheduled here.
- **Applies desktop settings** – before every schedule build, the plugin pulls the rig’s scheduler settings (strategy, sort chain, dither, filter switching, flats) from the cloud, so the desktop app remains the single source of truth for how the night is planned.

### The Location Check

The plugin builds its schedule using the **NINA profile’s observatory coordinates**. If those disagree with the imaging system’s site by more than a few kilometers, the plugin warns you – because visibility, twilight, and moon geometry would no longer match what the desktop simulator showed. Fix it by setting the NINA profile’s location to the site coordinates.

   **Tip:** A silent symptom of a wrong NINA profile location: high-declination targets dropping out of the schedule that the desktop app happily plans. If a target mysteriously vanishes at the observatory, check the profile location first.