Hi

My equipment's are the followings:
AZEQ6 - Meade SC 10" - KStars/Ekos/Indi on a tinker board/Ubuntu 18.04 _ Capture images with Sony Alpha 7S

Since two weeks I do have some issues with my AZEQ6, one motor prevents to perform the correct 3 stars triangulation but tracking is ok.
So I'v decided to find a procedure to use the polar alignment tool and astrometry tool of ekos to route the telescope to a comet position (C/2019 Y4) or any position in the sky.

I did the polar alignment, it works perfectly. I test the accuracy by pointing a bright star anywhere in the sky and activating the sideral tracking - OK zoomed star remains perfectly centered on the APN's view.

Now I need your help to accomplish the following:

1- I manually point the area of the comets by unblocking the RA and DEC locks - OK
2- I took a picture of the area the telescope is currrently pointing and 've submitted the pict to nova.asstrometry.net that returns me the names of objects. (the comet is not in the field otherwise it would be a chance !)

From there I would like to resync kstars and shows the position where the telescope is pointing by using the picture I took. My understanding is that I can't use directly the astrometry module of KStars because it don't know where I'm pointing in KStars so astrometry is not resolving.

I plan to use the load and slew function but from there I'm a bit lost. Do I have to park the telescope at the current position ?

Thanks to help by providing a procedure to find any object in the sky by using the astrometry module either local or external.

Thanks
JP

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