Andrew, I'm using both "Unattended Flip" (until now set each time in MW4) and also "KStars Updates All Devices" following your advice from a few weeks ago. Since doing both those things I've been getting successful all-night imaging sessions.

I have watched closeup while the mount does the "unattended flip." It works even with no software connected, just the mount computer itself. Very impressive! With a good model I think you could track all night with just a DSLR and no KStars to manage things.

I think there's still something fishy with the time and location settings:

1) It's odd that the mount (or INDI driver?) truncates the lat/lon at degrees and minutes, setting seconds to zero
2) Occasionally the time reported by KStars randomly changes by an hour (!) when "Mount updates KStars" is selected. This is definitely a bug.

Until these issues are solved I will do as you recommended (and indeed as Hans does) and use NTP time and a fixed location in KStars, and be careful that KStars ignores the time & location reported by the mount.

Really appreciate your help in getting these things sorted. I'm now getting lovely unguided images at FL up to 1500 mm and up to 600 s, and crossing the meridian without a second thought.

Scott

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