Short story for you: tonight I attempted to target that same galaxy out of curiosity because my FOV seems proper. At that time of the night, it is located on the meridian, north side.
I had not verified the eqmod RJ45 cable precisely enough, and it was not plugged in entirely. When the mount slewed down to the target, the mount disconnected. If I was 450 miles away, that would be a problem.
Well, it's somehow still a problem locally because of the amount of noise I make going out in the garden...
Only to realize, back to my controller computer, that the guider CCD connection had died too. After a few attempts at resetting the USB device without unplugging it, I called it quit.
That sort of USB issue would be fixed with a reboot, but I have a driver issue on my particular kernel which makes the remote indiserver lose wifi when the host soft-reboots. And I have no supply switch yet to do a hard-reboot.
Not ready for a remote observatory
-Eric