Hello, I am working on integrating a new mount (Takahashi EM-11 Jr) with Kstars, and am having a problem with kstars thinking the mount is located 6 less hours in RA than it actually is. For example, if I slew to a given star from the home position, the telescope will point to the correct Dec, but it will slew to the object's RA + 6 hours. I could fool Kstars by just manually pointing to the star after the slew, but when I go to park at the end of the night I would have to manually adjust it again.

Now I believe the problem is that Kstars is assuming the incorrect RA for the home position. The home position currently has the RA set to LST, but I believe it should actually be LST + 6. This is because if the RA were actually set to LST at the home position, it would be able to point to the zenith by moving only the DEC axis, but this is not the case. If you were to rotate the DEC axis by roughly 90 degrees from the home position, it should point toward the horizon, which is 6 hours off of LST.

So long story short, is there a way for me to set the home position to RA= LST + 6 hours? I have tried changing it in the driver settings, but it always just changes back to LST.

Thanks!

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