I've had some issues with my StarSense, mostly because I don't use it enough. I don't have your telescope, so can't comment on that, but yes, in theory, the telescope will track and direct you to objects. I haven't been nearly 100% successful with doing that (as the telescope seems to be close, but not on, the object I'm looking at). However, I was able to manually get to Jupiter (the auto align got close, but not on the object) by moving to the object with the usual keypad. No, you won't strain the motors by doing this, because the telescope doesn't *know* that it isn't on the "correct" object, so it isn't trying to continually correct--it's just doing with it normally would.