NINA mirrors my image when loaded into Framing Assistant

[teoria_del_big_bang]

I have been using NINA now for quite a few months and love it and quite used to how to drive it.

Last nights surprisingly clear night had me  rushing about making use of it.
When I powered up NINA had an update for me, nothing unusual in that, so let it update.
Now my session was to add some data for the Heart so loaded an image from my last session into the framing wizard, image I was using below.

When I then loaded this into NINA  the image is mirrored as below.

Not being that observant I  never noticed this at first and continued and used the slew and rotate (I have an automatic rotator) option and took an image and the angle was nowhere near.

To start with I still did not notice the mirrored image so tried 2 or three times and also loaded some different images from same last session.
All images loaded mirrored., Odd thing is it platesolved it without an error (which I guess it may be capable of ) and rotated the camera to the same WRONG  position everytime, as I did try 2 or three times before I did notice the issue.
So it was wrong but consistently wrong.

It was then I noticed the image in the framing wizard were mirrored.
As I wanted the framing to be as close to original as possible because I could not afford a big crop I mirrored the image in Pixinsight and then used that image in framing wizard as when this was loaded it looked the correct way round and it worked a treat.

BUT, how odd ?????

This morning I repeated the steps I took to make sure I did nothing odd and it is the same as these screenshots are from today.
But, more intriguing is I downsampled the image in PI, only reason being is I wanted an image to use in future for the framing and just wanted to make it smaller and low and behold the downsampled image is the correct way round. as below.

Is this an issue in NINA or have I some odd keyword in my fits header that makes NINA do this , I cant see anything obvious in the header.

Steve

Edited January 26, 2023 by teoria_del_big_bang

[scotty38]

Bit late to this and can't offer anything on the rotation but I am curious on the use of images. I know plenty of folk do this but I never have and, I think, my method would have prevented your issues BUT I may be missing reasons as to why images are used instead 🙂

What I do for any object once framed/rotated etc is either save that as a target or save the sequence in which it's embedded and then when I come to add to it the coordinates and rotation etc is already there and available. Is there any advantage or other reason for doing it via an image?

[Stuart1971]

On 26/01/2023 at 10:58, teoria_del_big_bang said:

I have been using NINA now for quite a few months and love it and quite used to how to drive it.

Last nights surprisingly clear night had me  rushing about making use of it.
When I powered up NINA had an update for me, nothing unusual in that, so let it update.
Now my session was to add some data for the Heart so loaded an image from my last session into the framing wizard, image I was using below.

When I then loaded this into NINA  the image is mirrored as below.

Not being that observant I  never noticed this at first and continued and used the slew and rotate (I have an automatic rotator) option and took an image and the angle was nowhere near.

To start with I still did not notice the mirrored image so tried 2 or three times and also loaded some different images from same last session.
All images loaded mirrored., Odd thing is it platesolved it without an error (which I guess it may be capable of ) and rotated the camera to the same WRONG  position everytime, as I did try 2 or three times before I did notice the issue.
So it was wrong but consistently wrong.

It was then I noticed the image in the framing wizard were mirrored.
As I wanted the framing to be as close to original as possible because I could not afford a big crop I mirrored the image in Pixinsight and then used that image in framing wizard as when this was loaded it looked the correct way round and it worked a treat.

BUT, how odd ?????

This morning I repeated the steps I took to make sure I did nothing odd and it is the same as these screenshots are from today.
But, more intriguing is I downsampled the image in PI, only reason being is I wanted an image to use in future for the framing and just wanted to make it smaller and low and behold the downsampled image is the correct way round. as below.

Is this an issue in NINA or have I some odd keyword in my fits header that makes NINA do this , I cant see anything obvious in the header.

Steve

Probably best reported on the NINA discord, I think you would get a quick reply on there, and if it is a bug, would get fixed pretty quick…

Although as usual with that site, you may get a few sarcastic comments first from the usual arrogant suspects….😂

[teoria_del_big_bang]

51 minutes ago, scotty38 said:

Bit late to this and can't offer anything on the rotation but I am curious on the use of images. I know plenty of folk do this but I never have and, I think, my method would have prevented your issues BUT I may be missing reasons as to why images are used instead 🙂

What I do for any object once framed/rotated etc is either save that as a target or save the sequence in which it's embedded and then when I come to add to it the coordinates and rotation etc is already there and available. Is there any advantage or other reason for doing it via an image?

No I do not think there is any sdvantage, the only reason for doing it is the image I am adding to was done before I used NINA otherwise like you I would have saved a sequence or target in NINA.

Steve

[teoria_del_big_bang]

42 minutes ago, Stuart1971 said:

Probably best reported on the NINA discord, I think you would get a quick reply on there, and if it is a bug, would get fixed pretty quick…

Although as usual with that site, you may get a few sarcastic comments first from the usual arrogant suspects….😂

Yes I probably will , I just hate Discord, one for the reason you mention and the other is I just have not worked out how it is organised and can never seem to find things on it, even my own posts sometimes 🙂 

Steve