Been out a couple of times recently after a hiatus and noticed the meridian flip goes well up until the point of solving and can never find where it is.

That's when I stop things, download an image and solve it manually, only to find out the dec is out by around 20 degrees. RA is perfectly fine

I'm using a HEQ5 Pro running Stellarmate on an RPi 4, Kstars 3.6.0 stable (Thought it would with the package updater)

My current routine is simply: Polar align, reset to home position, slew to meridian to calibrate guiding, solve, slew to target and solve.

Do I need to have a better mount model perhaps and slew to targets further away to build it before slewing to intended target?

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