Chatstronomy

N.I.N.A. meets Discord

A Discord bot for your telescope.

Image previews, focus curves, and guiding updates. Follow your imaging session without opening a remote desktop.

Open Chatstronomy Hub Install the plugin

Available in the official N.I.N.A. plugin repository.

Chatstronomy in Discord: an NGC 7023 image preview, guiding graph, and capture details including filter, exposure, temperature, and HFR.
A real session: a new frame, its guiding graph, and the details that matter. View full size

See how your focus run went.

Autofocus curves and results from N.I.N.A. and Hocus Focus, delivered to chat.

Hocus Focus autofocus graph in Tilted Hyperbola mode: measured HFR against focuser position, with error bars and initial and calculated focus positions. HFR changed from 1.81 to 1.43.
A real Hocus Focus run, plotted by Chatstronomy. View full-size graph
Chatstronomy's Autofocus Completed message in Discord, with Hocus Focus Tilted Hyperbola mode, duration, temperature, focus position, before-and-after HFR, and fit and star-detection metrics.
The results in Discord, including Hocus Focus diagnostics. View full-size results

From N.I.N.A. to Discord in three steps.

  1. Install

    In N.I.N.A., open Plugins > Available, install Chatstronomy, and restart. No extra repository needed.

  2. Choose what to share

    Open the plugin options and review events, images, logs, and location sharing.

  3. Pair with the Hub

    Open Chatstronomy Hub, get a pairing code, and enter it in the plugin. Connect your Discord channel in the Hub.

N.I.N.A. 3.2+ on Windows. Before pairing, read the Hub privacy policy and terms.

Looking for the development repository?

In Options > General > Plugin Repositories, select + and add:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/theatrus/chatstronomy-nina-plugin/main/registry

This can sit alongside the official repository. Development repository guide

Check in. Or take control.

Use /chatstronomy in Discord to check status, request an image, or run a locally permitted command.

  • /chatstronomy status
  • /chatstronomy last-image
  • /chatstronomy autofocus
  • /chatstronomy center-rotate-target

Hardware commands need both the master switch and individual permission in N.I.N.A. Autofocus, filter changes, and target moves use matching triggers during an advanced sequence.

Command and trigger guide

One rig or several.

Pair each N.I.N.A. computer with the Hub and route its updates to your Discord channels. No observatory ports to open.

Prefer local? The plugin can run your own Discord bot, Discord webhook, or Matrix account. Matrix and webhooks support notifications, not slash commands.

Local setup guide

You choose what leaves N.I.N.A.

Disabled event categories are never sent to the Hub or local bot. Image, log, and location sharing have their own controls. Hub permissions cannot override local command permissions.

Sharing settings · Hub privacy policy