rlancaste wrote: When you say you did the alignment, do you mean that you plate solved in 3 different places in the sky or that you did the mount's 3 star alignment with the hand paddle before connecting the eq direct cable?

Thanks for your answer. No, as I said, I did the 3-star alignment with the handheld. No Kstars involved. This was just to check if there was nothing wrong with the mount itself before trying to plug Kstars. I'm unfortunately nowhere close to do plate solving yet. Connecting the Raspberry Pi with the EQDirect cable to the mount and being able to connect the Macbook and having Kstars slewing the scope was already an achievement for this noob!

rlancaste wrote: Also, do you have it set in the KStars options to sync the date and time and coordinates from the computer to the device? When you connect, this would change the date, time, and location on the mount.

Okay, I don't think I did that. I need to investigate how to do it.

rlancaste wrote: This would be desirable in most cases since the computer clock and location is more likely to be correct and since they will match now. It would not be desirable if in fact the computer's date, time, or location is wrong since that will then change the mount's information to be incorrect. If you aligned using the hand paddle and then it updates the date, time, location from the computer and one of those is significantly wrong, then yes your gotos would be insanely wrong.

Which again brings me to my previous question, in my configuration in which the Raspberry Pi acts as an INDI server, the Kstars client being on the Macbook (well, that is if I got this right), which clock are we speaking of here? The Macbook's (my guess), or the Raspberry's?

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