====== Telescope Tool ======

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This tool display the current telescope RA/DEC and Alt/Az position, the side of pier if reported by the driver, the time to or from the meridian.

You can **Park** or **Unpark** the mount using the corresponding button.\\
The **Track** button start or stop the mount tracking.

The **Handpad** button open a virtual handpad to manually move the telescope.\\
You can use the buttons or the keys Ctrl or Alt + an arrow key.

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Click the **Goto** button to move the telescope to a new position.

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There is tree way to define the new telescope coordinates:

  *Enter an object name and click **Search** to get the position from the internal database, if not found and you are connected to Internet, it continue the search using Simbad and NED online.
  *Select the object in the connected [[planetarium]].
  *Type directly the RA and Dec J2000 coordinates, using decimal value or the hms/dms format with a variety of separator .\\ {{:en:documentation:tool_goto2.png?300|}}

After the coordinates are entered, the target Azimuth and Elevation is show, so you can check if it is safe to slew the telescope there.

If you not want a precise centering of the object you can uncheck **Use astrometry to refine the position**. In this case a simple Goto is done, without plate solving.\\
When using the spectroscopy auto-guiding with an astrometry method, an additional box allow to start guiding at the specified coordinates.

There is an indication the Goto is in progress and you can stop it using the **Stop** button. Wait 10 to 15 seconds for terminating all the running tasks. 

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If guiding was active before the Goto operation it is restarted at the new position.

You can also use the [[sequence]] tool to automatically move the telescope at a new location from CCDciel.