Quick Actions — NINA plugin

A dockable panel in NINA's Imaging tab that lets you build and run one-click hardware macros — mount slews, focuser/rotator moves, camera cooling, exposures, filter changes, guiding, and plate solving.

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Features

• Tile grid — every macro is a colored tile sized for one-click invocation; tiles auto-sort by hardware category and name.
• Color-coded by category — Mount (charcoal blue), Camera (burnt peach), Filter wheel (verdigris), Focuser (jasmine), Rotator (salmon), Guider (sandy brown).
• Real-time connection state — tiles disable themselves the moment the relevant device disconnects.
• Live mount coordinates in the panel header (RA / Dec / Alt / Az) plus a status dot per device.
• Cancel button appears whenever a macro is running so you can abort long operations like a stuck plate solve.
• Macros saved per NINA profile — different telescope profiles can have completely different macro sets.

Available actions

Mount

• Slew by RA or Dec offset (signed degrees, optional plate-solve & recenter)
• Slew to RA/Dec coordinates (HMS / DMS or decimal, optional recenter)
• Slew to NCP (with optional recenter for polar alignment)
• Slew to Zenith
• Slew to Alt/Az (parametric)
• Park / Unpark
• Stop Slew (abort)
• Find Home
• Sync to Current
• Plate Solve & Sync (capture, solve, sync mount to result)

Focuser

• Move to absolute position
• Move by relative steps (signed)

Camera

• Cool to target temperature with cool-down ramp
• Warm up
• Take exposure (snapshot, decimal seconds supported — e.g. 0.1 for lunar)

Filter wheel

• Select filter from active profile (lookup by name with slot fallback)

Rotator

• Move to angle (0–360°)
• Move by relative offset (signed)

Guider (PHD2 etc.)

• Start guiding
• Stop guiding
• Dither

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Installation

Requires NINA 3.2.0.9001 or later.

1. Close NINA if it is running.
2. Create the folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\NINA\Plugins\3.0.0\Quick Actions
3. Copy NINA.Plugin.QuickActions.dll (from a release zip or built locally) into that folder.
4. Start NINA. The Quick Actions panel will appear as a dockable tool in the Imaging tab.

Building from source

dotnet build -c Release

The post-build step copies the DLL into %LOCALAPPDATA%\NINA\Plugins\3.0.0\Quick Actions\ automatically.

License

Mozilla Public License 2.0 — see LICENSE.

Credits

Programmed by Claude Code (Anthropic) on behalf of Tomas Dvoracek.