SUCCESS!

It was indeed hidden in the hand controller. But not in the time & location nor Meridian treatment tab, no it was in the alignment menu! I vaguely remember that I did experiment a little with star- and polar-align routines when I got the mount. I was not impressed by that and completely forgot about it. So, when I was checking through the HC menu today I thought to have a look in the alignment tabs too, as „alignment“ sounded to me like „it could screw something up“.

And indeed, there was an alignment error set in the HC! Stupid, stupid me… I simply deleted the alignment data and I directly love my CEM25P even more than before

The mount slewed directly to the „convenient“ side of the pier even if the object did not cross the Meridian but was close to. A test Meridian flip worked like a charm and even the parking works now!

I´m really looking forward to the first flawless meridian-crossing imaging session to see it in action with plate solving and guiding - fingers crossed.
Thank you all for your patience and many many ideas (and insisting to search the error in the HC rather than in Ekos )

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