Hello friends
I have a basic setup which is
A tripod
Canon 1500D
250mm kit canon lense
Ioptron skyguider pro which is manual mount

I bought raspberry pi and flashed StellarMate on it. My problem is after taking the picture it says astrometric alignment failed

I have setup a profile with Ioptron as mount canon 1500d as CCD . Mount is in no way connected to pi. But if I don't specify it in profile there is no capture and solve option. I have specified the lense focal length in optical train also.

Am I fundamentally wrong? Is StellarMate only meant for goto mount ? Can it not do blind solving???

My aim is to do polar alignment because Polaris is not visible in city bortle 8 sky. Also to get Ra and dec of center so I can manually locate target. Any help would be very very useful. I'm disheartned

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