So I tried a few combinations of initial step size and multiplier after updating to the latest KStars release. Mostly I went with 20 and 5. Sometimes Linear achieved good focus; other times it goofed. I neglected to run the logs (sorry) and didn't get a screenshot since I was using my iPad most of the night. But what often seemed to happen was that the software would go way outward to clear backlash, then progress inward for a while, leaving a nice half of a V until it had started climbing the other side. Back outward -- not quite as far -- then inward again. But the dots for the second round wouldn't overlay the original slope, rather they'd extend a sort of shelf out over the deeper part of the curve. I hypothesize that the software's idea of the X coordinate (focuser position) is just dramatically wrong, so its mechanics get messed up. The outward and initial inward moves are much larger than step size * multiplier, which is probably as intended.

And then sometimes it would nail it right at the bottom of the curve on the second or third try. Sometimes Iterative would work, or even Polynomial.

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