Kstars with Ekos anybody using it?
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Re: Kstars with Ekos anybody using it?
Having said that it is probably no harder to learn than any of the other suites.
You should probably start with navigating using KStars. Set up your location, connect to INDI via Ekos, right click an object near the pole and try a short
Once you are confident with a simple
Then you can move to the alignment module to polar align, star align and plate solve on different targets.
After that you can think about guiding with either PHD2 or the Ekos internal guider. I prefer PHD2 but that's because I'm used to it.
I would leave the focus module till after that and manually focus for now. The focus module takes some tweaking to get right for any given set up.
Try each step above and if anything doesn't make sense just ask here or at the INDI forum for help.
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