Hi. The problem started when I installed the latest version of kstars .
It was a perfectly working setup but auto focus was unreliable so I thought I would give the new focussing routines a go. For some reason I couldn't install the latest version . I upgraded my Linux Mint to Vanessa and while I was at it I formatted the drive with LVM. Following the upgrade the latest version of kstars installed but would only save the images on the main drive as a .bin file. These files were screen shots of the kstars desktop . Very weird. So after a new install of kstars on a standard Linux partition it now works as it should with only four days of grief. Now it's cloudy and rainy. Still trying to see if it was worth the trouble . Hope the focus module works better than the old version .

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