If you haven't tried it yet. Try the sextractor settings. This is an area that was updated recently where people (including myself) had trouble with multiple versions of python installed. See my settings. This skips python, using sextractor instead, and alleviated all my issues. It's also way faster at plate solving than python was. You will need to install the latest version of KStars/EKOS to access this.

Thanks! to be totally honest though, I have no idea what that even means, (edit .profile and comment out all anaconda related lines by putting a # at the start of the line). which lines? the error codes or the ones that says the files are found in anaconda? I got the sextractor to work for 1 night but it hasnt since.

The .profile file is a file with settings for your terminal (where you type commands) that get loaded everytime you open a new terminal. To edit it, open a temrinal and type

nano .profile

In that file you should see some line containing >>> conda initialize >>> and another one a few lines down containing <<< conda initialize <<. Simply move the cursor down to the start of each of the lines in betwee those two and type a # character. Then use CTRL-X to exit. You will be prompted for saving the file and there you type y for yes. Now close the terminal and open again. Your command prompt should not contain (base) anymore. If that's the case, you have successfully disabled anaconda and can type the pip install astropy command again.

Regarding sextractror, any clue as to error messages or so that you get when it doesn't work would be useful. Without that info it will be impossible for us to help you.

Got the solver to work with sexrractor last night, but it wouldnt slew to target. here is a screen grab I know it probable doesnt give you too much info.

I often open up the mount tab, then open the mount control window, and issue a goto command to go to the specific object again. Then solve the location on the alignment tab. I keep the mount control window open to manually issue goto commands. It should be sending you to the target though.

I generally issue my commands through the kstars planetarium software. It gets me pretty damn close, that capture on the platesolve is from the goto on the planetarium. When the platesolve worked that one night, it would center the object by slewing my scope after I sent the scope to the object. Should I be entering the coordinates into the solver for it to slew the scope without using the goto?

Next time, please make sure that the debug logs are enabled and share them here. See this link

www.indilib.org/support/logs-submission.html

for how to do that. Note that you need to click on the Go To Editor link in this forum (to the lower right of where you enter comments) to be able to add attachments to your comments.

It's possible that you're not clicking on the object directly, that you are clicking nearby. Hence, the object not centering. It could be you're precisely centered on where you clicked.

It's best to open the mount control panel, from there, you can type in the objects identifier like NGC 1234, or M1 or whatever it is. Then hit the goto button, and it will go precisely to that object. I find this is more reliable than clicking within the planetarium window of Kstars.

Yes that is possible but have another look at the screenshot. dRa and dDe are huge and the Accuracy is set to the standard value of 30". Also, the solutions table shows an error for the third solution. I am afraid that we will need logs to find out what's going on.

Piggled, a silly question but are you sure that your mount gets enough power through the power supply? A too low current can lead to malfunctioning mounts which refuse to slew for instance. Just a though.

It is definitely getting enough power. I have enable the log files, but I have some already in my folders. Hopefully I will have some better answers tonight

Not sure if this is related but the only thing I can find in those logs that seem to indicate what the problem may be is

[2020-03-25T20:24:24.090 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - iOptron CEM40 : "[WARNING] Please unpark the mount before issuing any motion/sync commands. "

So make sure to go to the Mount tab and click Unpark before you do anything else. Note that by default Ekos instructs the mount to park after polar alignment. You can disable that behavior by going to the Align tab and clicking the Options button to the lower right of the tab. The auto-park behavior can then be disabled in the Astrometry.net tab of the options popup.

Robert has been making tremendous progress on the internal solver.. we hope by 3.4.2 we don't have to require python3 at all.