Paul,
Please don't let my frustration with the Stellarmate/AZ-GTI combo get in your way of your wide angle goal. While I have the same error message I'm not exactly sure whether it effects my operation or not. It could be part of the reason I don't track well with Stellarmate but sadly this hobby, at least when I'm off in my own less favored equipment set like the AZ-GTI and Stellarmate on a Raspberry Pi, just doesn't get much attention or support. Or possibly I haven't figured out how to get real support.

You are the only person who responded to this thread which was posted roughly 5 months ago so clearly either very few people see this problem and have nothing to say or no one's reading this thread.

I hope this year to do some wide angle mosaic shooting. It would work well with my setup. I think the way I would approach it with Synscan would be to do a few 3-star alignments and then just map out major stars in each section of the sky to center on ahead of time. Sadly it's monsoon season here in Tucson so I've barely seen stars in the last month or two but I hope to get back to shooting on a more regular basis in October or November.

Good luck,
Mark

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