Night Summary

Night Summary is a plugin for N.I.N.A. that automatically records your imaging sessions and generates detailed HTML reports when your sequence ends.

Whether you run a remote observatory or image from your backyard, Night Summary gives you a comprehensive look at what happened overnight — saved locally or delivered to your email, Discord, or Pushover.

Night Summary Report

Key Features

  • Session recording — captures every exposure with full metadata (HFR, guiding RMS, star count, filter, temperature, and more), plus autofocus runs, meridian flips, and safety monitor events
  • Rich HTML reports — event timelines, yield/overhead breakdowns, altitude charts, sky thumbnails, image quality tables, metric charts and more
  • Live dashboard — browser-based dashboard running on your NINA machine; browse session history, explore lifetime target stats, and view full reports from any device on your network
  • Multiple delivery channels — email, Discord webhook, Pushover notifications, or local file save
  • Live Stack integration — includes live-stacked thumbnails from the Live Stack plugin (if installed and enabled) in your report
  • Target Scheduler integration — shows acquisition progress bars, minimum altitude lines, and a preview of tonight’s imaging plan when Target Scheduler is installed
  • Metric charts — plot any of 35 metrics (HFR, FWHM, guiding RMS, temperature, sky conditions, ADU statistics, capture settings, and more) with a per-filter selector to isolate one filter at a time
  • Rejected frame tracking — frames rejected by Target Scheduler grading or the manual thumbs-down button are counted in session overview and broken out in the per-target filter table
  • Yield and imaging overhead analysis — parses NINA logs to show exactly where your non-imaging time went (downloads, filter changes, autofocus, dithering, etc.)
  • Equipment profile — collapsible section showing all connected equipment with customizable display names
  • Session history — cumulative integration time per target across all sessions
  • Customizable detail levels — Snapshot, Standard, or Full reports to match your preference
  • Light and dark mode — reports and dashboard render in your choice of color scheme
  • File naming patterns — use NINA-style $$PATTERN$$ variables in report filenames

Installation

  1. Open NINA and go to Plugins (the puzzle piece icon in the sidebar)
  2. Search for Night Summary
  3. Click Install
  4. Restart NINA when prompted

Can also be downloaded directly from the GitHub repo.

https://github.com/vorticose/nina.plugin.nightsummary/releases

Night Summary requires NINA 3.2 or later.

Quick Start

Add the Night Summary Start and Night Summary End instructions to your sequence, and Night Summary records your session and generates a report automatically when the sequence ends. To actually receive the report, set up at least one delivery channel.

See Getting Started for a walkthrough.

Report Detail Levels

Night Summary offers three detail levels that control how much information appears in your report:

Level What’s Included
Snapshot Header, stat boxes, filter table
Standard + Event timeline, altitude charts, image quality, per-target IQ, Target Scheduler bars
Full + Yield and overhead analysis, metric charts, session history, tonight’s preview

Version

This documentation covers Night Summary v3.0+ for NINA 3.2+.