I am specifically talking about not returning to guide star. I made some progress by measuring the backlash in PemPro, then using those numbers in the INDI driver for EQMod.. The guiding software itself seemed to work ok once I used the larger backlash numbers. My backlash was measured at 770 msec which is huge in my mind. It is a EQ8 mount which is not know for tight tolerances. I am just saying, if Kstars had a tool like PemPro to measure backlash, I could have gotten to the solution faster... For example, this would mean moving the mount in one direction, say for 1 second (larger than most backlash measurement), then one second back the other way . The second pulse wont get you back to the star, but incrementing the back step until it does with the difference between the two directions becomes the backlash measurement. Just my thoughts.... Bruce

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