Auto focus is pretty essential on a refractor too, especially as we go into winter.
Yeah you can go File then Open Image, select an image and then solve it. Plate Solve 2 usually needs a hint, so if you know it’s rough coordinates, enter them in the dialogue box. When prompted, save the coordinates to the target.
Alternatively, in the Target Settings (cog) there’s a link to Populate coordinates from Astrobin, etc.
Then you can right click on the target name and Centre.
Since SGP is meant to be largely unattended, you can check the boxes for Slew/Centre when target stars, and then it’ll go there automatically.
It might be something he will grow into, little ‘uns tend to be more tech literate than the generation before them
