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kstars visual and eqmod mount slowly drift away from each other

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Over the course of a long set of exposures, in this case, 150 x 30s of the cocoon nebula, the pointer for the eqmod mount slowly drifts away from what is actually being captured. In the case of the attached picture, I know it is the eqmod pointer drifting because I am locked to a guide star. The actual scope is fine, and capturing away, just the pointer is off. Once it gets off, it is also very difficult to get back into sync, and seems to affect any new slews.. I am not sure where to start to debug this, so that is my first question. What logs, if any, would be beneficial?

My setup is using indi_gpsd for time and location lock, and I am set to device update.
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I do wonder if small adjustments that are being made by tracking are not always reflected as I have this Invalid Parameter in the logs quite a bit:

[2017-09-23T20:59:53.040 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars] - "Setting clock: UTC: Sun Sep 24 01:34:22 2017 GMT JD: 2,458,020.57"
[2017-09-23T20:59:53.080 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.fits] - Loading FITS file "/tmp/fitsB20480"
[2017-09-23T20:59:53.348 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "End Timed guide North/South "
[2017-09-23T20:59:53.350 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "End Timed guide West/East "
[2017-09-23T20:59:53.874 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.fits] - Loading FITS file "/tmp/fitsQ20480"
[2017-09-23T20:59:54.027 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "Warning: Invalid parameter -> Can not change rate while motor is running (direction differs). "
[2017-09-23T20:59:54.105 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "End Timed guide West/East "
[2017-09-23T20:59:54.106 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars] - "Setting clock: UTC: Sun Sep 24 01:34:24 2017 GMT JD: 2,458,020.57"
[2017-09-23T20:59:54.680 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.fits] - Loading FITS file "/tmp/fitsk20480"
[2017-09-23T20:59:54.964 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "End Timed guide West/East "
[2017-09-23T20:59:55.034 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "End Timed guide North/South "
[2017-09-23T20:59:55.185 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars] - "Setting clock: UTC: Sun Sep 24 01:34:25 2017 GMT JD: 2,458,020.57"
[2017-09-23T20:59:55.472 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.fits] - Loading FITS file "/tmp/fitsF20480"
[2017-09-23T20:59:55.732 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "End Timed guide West/East "
[2017-09-23T20:59:55.863 CDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "End Timed guide North/South "
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