as a novice user on Linux.. self install can usually teach you a lot!

This has a high chance of success for you:

Here is a good general instruction - www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/os.html

But that is just the start. I depends what camera mount you are going to use and what camera and ..... I have an OpenAstroTracker wiki.openastrotech.com/en/OpenAstroTracker kit purchased from www.astroshop.eu/camera-mounts/openastro...ker-diy-goto/p,70674.. Now with that mount the LX200 instructions used to tell the mount where to move to get confused if you allow the kstars to drive the mount so you have to allow the mount to do the moving so you have to Disable Time and Location updating in kstars {Settings; Configure-KStars ; INDI}.. The confusion comes from the use of the date line (180 degrees offset from meridian) and the meridian as reference positions.. the Meade protocol (LX200) Set Site Longitude camera mount expects 179W is 359 and 179E is 1 from 180 at Greenwich... but LX200 sends 179W is -179 and 179E is 179 from 0 at Greenwich... So to fix it you Disable Time and Location updating in kstars {Settings; Configure-KStars ; INDI}...

Point being if you have a good read about your configuration and your equipment you can find out all sorts of interesting stuff! Without knowing what you have there is no way of knowing how to help you!

If you feel like getting more of a helping hand then www.astroberry.io/ might be good for you.. I have not used astroberry but basically they take some version of raspberry pi OS and install lots of good stuff for you....

Good luck with your experiments!

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