I am trying to polar align using Ekos Polar Alignment routine, but is failing!
The mount is a Star Adventurer 2i wifi, which as you know only moves in RA direction.
The driver is the EQMod-driver.

So my initial steps are:
- physically move the scope (by loosen the knobs) to a star slightly west of the meridian, then fasten the knobs.
- syncing the scope's coordinates to that star (by right click on the star, EQMod Mount -> Sync)
- doing a plate solve (with sync as solver action), with success. So we seem to know where we are in the sky.


So far so good?

Then when I start the Polar Alignment procedure, the scope's coordinates suddenly moves away to some value
in the east, warning me "This could cause the telescope to cross the meridian!" !
Which also means that the solver will fail when the first image taken is so far away from the telescope's east coordinates.

The reason for the east coordinates seems to be that the alignment module is being reset.
I don't know from where these east coordinates comes from, seems to be some initial value?
And why the reset? How can I keep the solver coordinates? What am I doing wrong?

Has anyone succeeded in doing a polar alignment with Ekos on a Star Adventurer, and if so how?

Håkan Wahlberg

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