I cannot find my old post about this, I'm trying to slew the mount to a very specific position via the indi command line.

Here's a picture of the mount in the park position:


red line is parked.
green line is slewing the DEC 45 deg up from park position.

As I do not have a all-sky camera (in the to-make list...), I want to write a script that will do the following:
turn on mount & qhy5 camera (guider)
open roof
slew dec 45 deg up
take a picture or two
solve, if stars are detected then green light if not then it's cloudy.
etc...

I do have my weather station on, and that works well, but I would like to be able to quickly have a visual confirmation of the sky.

I've found my old post www.indilib.org/forum/general/559-how-to...om-indi-setprop.html but this was to move to a certain target coordinates. I can't seem to find something to move the DEC (or RA) by x amount of degree in indilib.org/develop/developer-manual/101...s.html#h3-telescopes

Isn’t there a “move to zenith” method or function?

Maybe the HORIZONTAL_COORD would work? Not sure, will have to try with the simulator.

Read current RA,DE, then send same coordinate to mount with the different DEC (DEC = Existing DEC + 45)

cool, I shall try that.

It worked like a charm

root@heidenrod-obs:/home/heidenrod# indi_setprop -h localhost 'EQMod Mount.TELESCOPE_PARK.PARK=Off'
root@heidenrod-obs:/home/heidenrod# indi_setprop -h localhost 'EQMod Mount.EQUATORIAL_EOD_COORD.RA;DEC=00:00:00;70:00:00'

with DEC being at about 41 before slow.