(N.I.N.A Vs SharpCap) with PHD2

[Aris Pope]

Hello friends,

I was looking for insight and recommendations. Has anyone used N.I.N.A. with PHD2 or SharpCap with PHD2? What do you all use? I just got my ZWO 120mm mini guide camera and guidescope. I already have SharpCap and PHD2 downloaded and I planned to use that until someone in another group suggested i look into NI.N.A.

Thanks for your help

Aris

[Francesco Meschia]

I love N.I.N.A.! Personally I don’t use PHD2, but there’s plenty of people who use it with N.I.N.A.

Francesco

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[Aris Pope]

That's good to hear, thank you! While researching all I've been seeing and hearing is SharpCap and PHD2 lol

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[Francesco Meschia]

I’m assuming you have deep-sky imaging in mind?

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[Arvind K]

Hi Aris,

I use NINA + PHD2.

PHD2 is a standalone guider- it connects to your mount & guide camera and directly performs guiding. I then have NINA take care of sequencing - start guiding/stop guiding etc (say during autofocus runs). Has worked reliably but note that in my case, I like to use stable versions so this is to be expected. I personally avoid BETAs and nightlies but there are lots of people that do regularly upgrade.

Personally, I highly recommend NINA.

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[Rajah]

I use NINA and PHD2 multistar tracking, works great for me. There are lots of support online for this kind of setup and tons of YouTube how to videos.

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[Aris Pope]

Yes I really wouldn't need it for planetary

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[Paolo Barettoni]

+1 for NINA and PHD2.

 I strongly suggest using the multistar guiding in PHD2 and the new sequencer in NINA to drive multi target using a lot of OTA type and setup.

(always using the beta/nightly and never had a problem, but YMMV...)

Paolo 

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[Aris Pope]

Awesome thanks Paulo!! I will give it a shot!! 🥃

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[Tan usa1]

I use NINA with PHD2. Works great. I use multi star guiding. 

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