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

[Alessio Sangalli]

Jasem Mutlaq wrote:

> For example. You look in your eye piece and you have Vega smack in the middle. 
> You look at KStars and the crosshair is not centered around Vega. This means 
> that the RA/DEC coordinates reported by the telescope are not those of Vega. 
> You right click on Vega in KStars and "Sync". Now the telescope is "pointing" 
> at Vega and its internal coordinates "match" Vega.

Very cool.

> The syncing operation is used to elliminate the differences between what the 
> telescope "think" it is pointing at (i.e. internal coordinates), and what the 
> telescope is actually pointing at.

Thank you for the explanation! I don't even think if it's possible to 
"sync" the telescope from its little keyboard. This is really good.

bye
Alessio Sangalli