I’d love to know how to model inside Ekos. It looks like most of the features required are in the internal alignment Subsystem. When it builds points I can’t get it to honor my horizon masks. I also can’t figure out the driver workings… there’s a model building section in the alignment tab.

My main issue is Astap/astrometry aren’t as robust as the internal solver. The result is I need excessive exposures (30s) before I’m polar aligned and the mount won’t track well enough before that to allow for the exposures required. But, the internal solver works great. If I could do a small model I could swap over to MW4 to polar align using this model.

My guess is this feature died with MW4 supporting INDI.

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