Hi
I'm highly interested in having Ekos helping me to set the correct rotation angle of my camera. So far I do this completely manually with Plate Solving which has some traps and problems.

That's how I do it currently:
- Load & Slew Image (image from a previous night)
loop until CameraAngleIsCorrect
- Check the plate solve overlay (the rectangular camera FOV) in KStars and estimate the angle that I need to rotate my camera, I have no rotator so rotating for me means manually turning the camera
- Plate Solve again
endLoop

The problem with my approach is that KStars is 'messed up' with a lot of plate solve overlays and I usually loose the overview of which is the most current overlay of a solved image (if the angles of the overlays are having small differences only, it's difficult to see which overlay is the most current one). So I usually disconnect all devices, stop Ekos, exit KStars and restart them all again, this clears all the Plate Solve overlays in KStars. Maybe I'm not aware of an easy way keep the most current FOV overlay only.

The solution which I would consider as brilliant is the approach from Rick (see: www.indilib.org/forum/wish-list/8441-man...-rotation.html#65441). If this could be implemented in way that people without an electronic camera rotator could also use it easily, I think this would be perfect.


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Avalon EvoZero Mount
QHYCCD600C@Sigma 135mm, f/2.8
QHY-5LII@WilliamOptions 50mm GuideScope
Pegasus FocusCube2, Pegasus PowerBox v2
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