I found a very good description of the various drift alignment procedures see for example - sites.google.com/site/openphdguiding/phd2-drift-alignment

I can see kstars has the guiding part and a limited set of drift alignment procedures however I was just looking at phd2 because it seemed to have more comprehensive instructions. - I don't intend to use Astrometry.net and plate solving as part of the alignment process just yet... trying to learn about one thing at a time!. I can also run phd2 on its own without any other distractions.

I will continue investigating / building phd2.. perhaps my version 2.6.11.rev20230530-0ppa1~ubuntu20.04 is too far out of date and has bugs that are now fixed.

Peter.

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