Yup as long as it works

I had some more time playing with the setup now. I did notice a potential side effect of the delay. The symptom is that, when I use the "slew to target" function in the alignment module, I seemingly can never get the error to be under 40 arc-second no matter how many time the alignment module tries to correct. Before the code change I can easily get under 20 arc-second, usually within 2 corrections. If I understood the code correctly, this 100ms delay is introduced for ALL commands going to the mount (including the polling of axis position and motor status). I wonder if this causes enough total delay between plate solving and the actual mount movement to result in ~40" slewing error. Furthermore, I wonder if the delay could potentially causes other side effects.

I'm already running an imaging sequence for tonight but tomorrow I can try to flip back to the old code and see if I can pin this on the code change.

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