From 1930-2355, all spent at the whims of either the solver not solving or the Losmandy mount refusing to slew to the opposite pierside (or changing pier side for glob only knows what!). Seems almost appropriate to lug the laptop outside and hookup PHD2 and the old Canon DSLR. I took great sequences last night and even caught E2 for 40min+, but tonight without any update KStars and EKOS have led me (or I've led it) to absolute frustration. It's heaven when EKOS does everything right, but absolute hell when it does everything except one specific thing. I feel like it's guaranteed to be not even on the radar of issues tomorrow, and instead guiding will all of a sudden be out of whack HAH!

Anybody else have recurring issues with Losmandy mounts? They're so solid, I just feel sometimes maybe we need a Gemini 3 already...

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