I made an attempt to use the Inspector running a rather fresh build of Kstars on Raspberry Pi and found it crashing just when the autofocus routing is done and results are about to be displayed. Nothing in the logs at all. Could it be that the graphical representation of results is relying on some libraries that are not bundled in my build of Kstars?

The solution was to run Kstars remotely from the laptop, although on my macOS 12.7.1 the latest Kstars 3.6.9 failed to start, but 3.6.8 did, and luckily it already has the AI.
It was a pleasure to use, but I had to go to the explanation video on Youtube to remind myself that the view is towards the telescope.

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