Mastering NINA: Setting Up Plate Solving

One thing users who adopt NINA find out pretty quickly is that you have options! And sometimes it gets confusing. Plate solving - or choosing a primary and blind plate solver - is one of those "options" where there are a lot of choices. I review my choices and how to install them on my mini PC and set them up in NINA. Let's go!

Content
0:00 Introduction
0:30 Overview of the Plate Solving Tab
1:29 Review of Plate Solvers
5:30 Difference between Primary and Blind Platesolvers
7:21 NINA Documentation for Plate Solving Setup
8:40 Setting up Pixel Size and Focal Length for Plate Solving
11:32 Plate Solver Options
18:13 Installing ASTAP
19:35 Installing and setting up PlateSolver 3.8
25:03 Setting Up NINA for plate solving
27:25 Wrap Up

My Astrophotography Gear
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro and Celestron branded Losmandy G-11 (Rebuilt and upgraded with spring loaded worms and tucked in motors, thanks Scott!)
Pier: Homemade pier with Starzona Pier Plate
Telescope (wide angle): Apertura 75Q, F/5.4, 405mm FL
Telescope (long): Third Planet Optics (TPO) 10" Newtonian F/4, 1000mm FL
Telescope (A bit longer): Third Planet Optics 6" RC f/9 1370mm FL
Guide Scope: Skywatcher Evoguide 50mm ED, F/4.8, 242mm FL
Guide Camera: Player One Neptune-M (IMX178 sensor, monochrome)
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI 290MM Mini
Astro Camera Monochrome: ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro
Astro Camera Color: OGMA AP26CC
Filter Wheel: ZWO EFW 2" 7 position and ZWO EFW 2" 5 position
Rotator: Pegasus Astro Falcon Rotator
Focuser: ZWO EAF (on each scope)
Power: Pegasus Pocket Powerbox Advance Gen 2 and Pegasus Pocket Powerbox Micro
Flat Panels: Deep Sky Dad Motorized Flat Panel, Wanderer 190mm motorized Flat Panel, Pegasus Astro Flatmaster 150, and a homemade one for my 10" Newtonian
Software Control PC: Mele Quieter 3 and Mele 3 Overclock C

My Astrophotography Software
Mount control software: Green Swamp Server (controls EQ6r Pro mount)
Mount control software: Gemini 2 (controls G-11 mount)
Pegasus Astro device management software: Pegasus Astro Utility Platform (controls all of my Pegasus Astro devices)
ASCOM 6.6 Platform
Acquisition software: NINA (lastest version)
Guiding software: Phd2 (latest version)
Planetarium software: Stellarium (latest version)
Plate solving software: ASTAP
Plate solving software: Plate Solve 2 and Plate Solve 3 from Planewave