I am trying to experiment with kstars/ ekos on astroberry and my questar 3.5 on its native mount. I'm fairly certain the mount is not supported but I was wondering if anyone has any experience using the alignment and platesolving features in ekos with a non-goto or unconnected mount? basically trying to use it as a push-to solution...
Hello Omer,
Do you have a camera attached to your Questar? If yes, then you can use the Telescope Simulator as mount in combination with appropriate driver for your camera.
With this combination you can use the alignment so that you can see on the skymap of KStars where your Questar is pointing to.
In the next release we will have a looping option so that the alignment runs continuously ant updates your mount position.
Wolfgang, appreciate the help here! Yes, I do and after posting the question, last night I tried that combination and I think it worked. Will have to give it a few tries to make sure I know what I'm doing with some confidence.
Separately, is there a way kstars will know where I'm pointed without a manual sync?