James, yes that's basically it. I do leave all the systems running indefinitely (4 different computers, with various weather, seeing, dark sky etc monitoring, observatory monitoring, hardware control and monitoring and 2 planetarium apps). I have TheSkyX Pro running on the same computer as KStars because I use it as the interface for my Paramount.

I finished a session last night and by this morning KStars is 2-3 sec behind TheSkyX and the computer clock.

2 nights ago I missed a good part of our short summer nights because KStars was over 1.5 hours slow and was late starting the schedule.

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