Making fine slew corrections in Stellarium

[StuartT]

I've got Stellarium steering my telescope, but it's a little out. I'm currently taking subs of M51, but I had to manually adjust the scope a little from where Stellarium  put it. (you can see from the capture that it's a little to the east of where it thinks it is)

1. is there a way to tell Stellarium to make a little adjustment to its alignment?

2. can I adjust the scope slew from within Stellarium? (as it's a bit tedious going out and tweaking the hand controller, taking a photo to see where it is, going out to tweak again etc etc etc)  

Edited April 3, 2021 by StuartT

[Cosmic Geoff]

It seems you are trying to do astro-imaging involving remote control of the telescope.  That will not be easy, and I think you need more specialised software for the purpose. Even standing beside the setup, I find that I need 'precise GoTo' or plate-solving to get the camera on target.

[TerryMcK]

You would be better using AstoPhotograpyTool and utilize plate solving. Then to guide add a small guidescope and guide camera. Again more expense but you can add the free software PHD2 to guide.

APT has a fully fuctional free version but I don’t think it costs that much to activate. £6 per year rigs a bell. Just use Stellarium to choose your target. I think you can still use Stellarium via Ascom to show where your mount is others can chip in to concur.

[StuartT]

5 hours ago, Cosmic Geoff said:

It seems you are trying to do astro-imaging involving remote control of the telescope.  That will not be easy, and I think you need more specialised software for the purpose. Even standing beside the setup, I find that I need 'precise GoTo' or plate-solving to get the camera on target.

 

4 hours ago, TerryMcK said:

You would be better using AstoPhotograpyTool and utilize plate solving. Then to guide add a small guidescope and guide camera. Again more expense but you can add the free software PHD2 to guide.

APT has a fully fuctional free version but I don’t think it costs that much to activate. £6 per year rigs a bell. Just use Stellarium to choose your target. I think you can still use Stellarium via Ascom to show where your mount is others can chip in to concur.

Thanks both. In fact, I was just using Stellarium to identify fun things to look at, then getting it to move the telescope to roughly the right place, then manually fine tuning position w the hand controller. I guess I was just wondering if there was some way to tell Stellarium what fine adjustments I'd made (and hence 'correct' it's understanding of the scope's true position)