N.I.N.A. - Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy Changelog

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Version 2.0

The changelog contains the most prominent changes of Version 2.0. In summary this version has tons of improvements and almost every aspect of the application has been touched and improved. A big thank you to everyone that participated in this long release cycle!

Important change of existing settings and panels

X86 Deprecation

Complete Sequencer Rework

Sequence Tab changed to show a sequence navigation first

New Advanced Sequencer

New Plugin Tab

Framing Tab

Imaging Tab - Sequence Panel

New hardware support

SkyGuard

MGEN3

MetaGuide

SVBony

SBIG

MallinCam

Risingcam

Player One

ASCOM Dome

ASCOM CoverCalibrator

ASCOM SafetyMonitor

Native support for Atik EFW2/3 and internal Filterwheels

Improvements for Altair, Touptek, Omegaon, Mallincam and Risingcam native drivers

PHD2

Application Improvements

General

Subsampling

Local Horizon Display


# Example horizon file content
# A line starting with # is treated as a comment
# The horizon file consists of a pair of azimuth and altitude values
# Azimuth values that are not explicitly defined will interpolate the altitude by using the existing datapoints
# A minimum of two points have to be defined
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Sky Atlas

Auto-focus system

File name patterns and FITS keywords

Included Camera SDK Versions can now be found inside the about page of N.I.N.A.

Version 1.10 HF3

Improvements

QHYCCD native driver improvements

Bug fixes

Included Camera SDK Versions:

Version 1.10 HF2

Improvements

Bugfixes

Included Camera SDK Versions:

Version 1.10 HF1

Features

Improvements

Bugfixes

Included Camera SDK Versions:

Version 1.10

New hardware support

Flat Panel control and automation

Omegon veTEC and veLOX series cameras

Native support for QHY integrated and CFW filter wheels

Lacerta MGEN-2 Autoguider integration

Native support for Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox V2

Expanded native camera support

Localization

Application Improvements

General

Auto-focus system

Sequencer

Plate Solving

Guiding

Framing Wizard

Imaging window changes

Planetarium software integration

FITS and XISF support

File name patterns and FITS keywords

Special Thanks

The N.I.N.A. team would like to sincerely thank:

These items helped a lot during development and testing.
Thank you for your support!

Included Camera SDK Versions:

Version 1.9

Features

Camera Control

Switch Hubs

Dither without guiding

Plate Solving

GPS Assisted Location

Interfacing with planetarium programs

Manual Camera

Weather data sources

Focusing

Sequencing

Flat Wizard

Interface

File Handling

OSC Camera Handling

Star Detection Sensitivity

Bugfixes

Improvements

Special Thanks

The N.I.N.A. team would like to sincerely thank:

Included Camera SDK Versions:

Version 1.8 Hotfix 1

Version 1.8

Features

Sequence

Plate Solving

Camera Control

Framing Assistant

Flat Wizard

Imaging

Framing Assistant Offline Sky Chart

Guiding

Auto-Update Channels

Bugfixes

Improvements

Special Thanks

The N.I.N.A. team would like to thank

These items helped a lot during development and testing.
Thank you for your support!


Version 1.7

Features

Framing Assistant

Sequences

Filter Wheel

Rotators

Imaging

Settings

Bugfixes

Improvements