Finding a star in NINA

[Desmond]

Probably something dumb I'm doing wrong...

I want to be able to find a nice bright star to check my focus. I decided on Arcturus and thought I'd be able to go into the Sky Atlas, type in Arcturus and NINA would find it.

I get no results.

I have even tried entering other formats from Stellarium but still nothing...

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

[Padraic M]

You're not doing anything wrong - NINA only includes DSOs. Google "NINA sky atlas stars" gives a reference from CN explaining why. Recommendation is to use planetarium software like Stellarium to find any target you want, then NINA framing wizard can import the coordinates into NINA and slew there.

[Desmond]

aha! - thank you

Much appreciated!

Now I need to work out how to connect the two together...

A little more learning to do!

 

[Desmond]

Got it working now - brilliant - thank you!!!

[Padraic M]

1 hour ago, Desmond said:

A little more learning to do!

You'd better get used to it!!! 🙂

[Ohgodwherediditgo]

Cuiv, the lazy geek is a Youtuber that has made a lot of videos on N.I.N.A. I would advise watching him if you're new to N.I.N.A, as i am.

[Padraic M]

Cuiv is one of the developers of NINA. His videos are great.

[tomato]

+1 for Cuiv’s NINA vids, they helped me out a lot.

[The Lazy Astronomer]

It looks like you've found a solution now, but just FYI, N.I.N.A. does have a module for manual focus targets. Saves having to import the coordinates each time. 👍