Manual rotator for KStars/EKOS

[Jasem Mutlaq]

Hello Patrick,

We have had this functionality in KStars for a couple of years. in upcoming
3.6.1, I simplified the UI quite a bit and now it even accounts for
meridian flip.

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Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq



On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 4:01 PM Patrick Molenaar <pr_molenaar at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Last week I found a video on how to use the Manual Rotator in N.I.N.A. (
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwpOO7CsD7U&ab_channel=PatriotAstro).
> This seems like very nice functionality to also have available in KStars.
> I think it should be possible to implement this functionality in KStars,
> as KStars/EKOS does already support rotators and already has Plate Solving
> functionality.
> In the video they also describes something about a special item in the
> scheduler, I know that is done differently in EKOS.
> As I don't have a automatic rotator and have never used the rotator
> functionality in EKOS, I don't know how that currently works.
>
> Is there already such functionality availabe?
> If not, is this funcationality already on the feature list?
>
> I hope it will be possible.
>
> I do have quite some C++ experience and would like to participate in
> development of this feature. I have created the Bahtinov Focus Assistent
> for KStars/EKOS in the past.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Patrick
>
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