I'm not sure what's happening here, but I find the plate solving to work erratically. Yesterday, for example, it worked like charm for PA, but only after switching a couple of times between my main scope/camera and the guide scope/camera (it worked with the guide scope). But then I couldn't solve any images for syncing with either scope afterwards and as a result goto didn't work. The EQMOD mount's position is shown and I can direct it, but it will not solve. I run stellarmate on a Pi and access it through a VNC client on my windows laptop. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I also find that goto's don't work. The mount will move, but quite often to a direction in the southern hemisphere so there's something off there as well.

Many thanks,
Hans

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