The current align module behavior is giving me a lot of grief. I normally use Stellarium as my planetarium program, and I command mount moves from there. However, after doing a Goto from Stellarium, and then trying to do an align in Ekos, definitely causes undesired behavior, especially if I've done any slewing from KStars previously.

It seems the Align module remembers the last commanded position from KStars, and always wants to align to that, and not to what I've slewed the mount to. This is especially problematic, as the two positions can be many tens of degrees apart, and the Align module will plate solve and sync according to the old position, really throwing the model out of whack.

Why can't we just align to the current RA/Dec reported by the mount? When I do a slew, either from KStars, or from Stellarium, or any place really, the RA/Dec of the mount will be the desired position. Why can't Align just use that?

It seems if I select Sync, it works as intended. But then I have to slew again from Stellarium. Then go back to Ekos, and Sync again. And check the error. And repeat.

I seem to remember this working properly at some point in the past. Has this changed?
 

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