What version of KStars are you running? Are you on 2.9.6 or are you running a nightly/bleeding-edge build? If the version you are using was built after June 3, perhaps it's possible that these changes are responsible? It seems likely to me that this is a regression of some sort, as I seriously doubt that the Polar Alignment Helper could have been broken ever since it was introduced a year ago and nobody would have noticed. It does look like some fairly major changes were made, so perhaps the bug was introduced there? These changes were made after 2.9.6 (the latest stable version) was released though, so unless you're running the bleeding-edge version, the problem would have to be older than that.

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