Hi,

I am using kstars with Celestron computer driven telescope with kstars-bleeding and all is working properly

I have added separate camera system (fixed, stationary) that detects moving objects and can get the 2D (X,Y) coords of the object using OpenCV and Python on Rpi

I can set it up so that the 2D camera X0,Y0 position aligns with the telescope center FoV by manual adjustements.

How do I send x,y updates to kstars when the camera detects an object, and then keep sending coordinate updates in 2D format to kstars to make the telescope follow the moving object seen in the camera

I am guessing that there is some kind of API to send coordinates to kstars, but not sure on how to convert X,Y from camera to match telescope and also how to scale the telescope to the camera FoV

If this is not possible with kstars, what would be involved in adding this as a feature.

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