Hello Everyone,

I am using Stellarmate OS on R-pi 4 since almost 2 years, and was very very happy with it since few weeks ago.
One day, I noticed that my Guiding RMS has gone up from 0.7-1.3 to 14 and even more. I noticed that all this issue started during the last week of August 2023 or may be the first week of September 2023. Initially, I thought that I might have disturbed the polar allignment, but on checking it, it was perfectly alligned. And as soon as I start guiding, the RMS error will right away go up.

Later, I downgraded again to 1.7.1, and wow..., guiding RMS went down to under 1, and I was able to collect 13.5 hours of data for Wizard Nebula. But still not satisfied, last evening I downloaded the 1.7.8 version (upgraded the Stellarmate), and started using it. The guiding errors surfaced again! I rechecked the Polar allignment last night, but it was still the best. At last, I downgraded it again to 1.7.1 and is working as expected!

Stellarmate allows to download updates upto 10 times. I started with 1.7.1, but then downloaded twice again (1.7.5, and 1.7., and both of them are total wastage for me! Can anyone here (or Jasem Mutlaq) help me to solve this guiding issues?

On researching the net, I found out that the latest KStars release (Build: 2023-08-18T08:50:22Z) has caused some issues to others as well. Stellarmate 1.7.1 has KStars - Build: 2022-05-26T07:13:59Z and causing no issues at all.

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