[Kstars-devel] Re: INDI Time & Geographical settings

[Alessio Sangalli]

Jasem Mutlaq wrote:

> It's a celestron issue. Celestrons don't support remote setting of time and 
> location as far as I know.

I've checked my telescope's manual and it seems you're right. Who knows
about some undocumented features :)


> You can refer to the Telescope chapter in the KStars manual 
> 
> http://docs.kde.org/en/HEAD/kdeedu/kstars/indi.html

Yes I did read the manual but, an experiment I made few nights ago, I
syncronized the telescope to some very bright star. After I tried to go
to another object, the tracking was still not very good. So my question
is: when I sync the telescope, is it supposed to gain some better
alignment in the following operations - or not? I know the precision
can't be perfect if the first alignment was not good, but can I
compensate a bit with sync operations?


> For sidereal objects, Slew/Track perform the same function. For non-sidereal 
> objects (e.g. planets), slew only moves to the object, but track insures that 
> it's being tracked properly.

Ok I got it, thank you!

ciao
as