how to target nearby objects?

[BeanThruster]

Last evening I had this contract to fulfill the piece of equipment from LKO. being that lately I've been into SSTOs designing and devel, I saw a good opportunity to test my newly develobed flying toys. So, I built a small claw equipped recovering unit, docked it into the MK3 cargo bay  of my shuttle-like medium SSTO, and took off.

Upon reaching the targeted space junk, I opened the cargo bay and undocked the recovering unit, to realize that the the original target (i.e., the equipment to be recovered that, I discovered at that time, was a depleted booster) was not retained by the undocked unit, and that there was apparently no way to target it.

Indeed, as far as I know, you can target a unit only in map mode, but when the unit you control is too close (that is, 20 m or less) to the unit you want to target, a correct selection is almost impossible. On the other hand, when in "normal" view mode, docking ports are the only things that can be selected as target in nearby objects.

It could well be that it's me that is missing something. Any idea how to efficiently select a nearby object (with "nearby", I mean so close that cannot be distinguished by my craft on the map) without the agonizing pain of sub-pixel-precision clicking in map mode? 

PS: for those who might be interested, I ended up redocking the recovering unit in the cargo bay, and then maneuvered the SSTO to get the damn piece of junk into the cargo bay too, and eventually had the docked claw capturing it.

[AHHans]

Have you tried double-clicking on the craft that you want to target? (In the non-map view, once you are close enough that you can see it.)

Oh, are you playing on PC or on console?

Edited November 14, 2019 by AHHans

[BeanThruster]

4 hours ago, AHHans said:

Have you tried double-clicking on the craft that you want to target? (In the non-map view, once you are close enough that you can see it.)

Oh, are you playing on PC or on console?

Ahhh, double-clicking, you say... I'm playing on PC and, as I wrote above, I was probabily  missing something.

I'll give it a try and I'll let you know. Thanks a lot 

Edited November 15, 2019 by BeanThruster

[BeanThruster]

On 11/14/2019 at 9:20 PM, AHHans said:

Have you tried double-clicking on the craft that you want to target? (In the non-map view, once you are close enough that you can see it.)

Oh, are you playing on PC or on console?

Yup, the right answer was the quite obvious "just double click on it". I don't know why I din't think of it.

However, thanks a lot again