Night before last, I was not guiding. I was just testing the meridian flip. I set up for 60s exposures of NGC246. At the appropriate time, the scope flipped and plate solved to put NGC246 back dead center. I did not expect to get any usable images what with the full moon, but to my surprise, there was the Skull!

Last night, I decided to try for 120s. I got PHD up and running, and when it came time for the flip, I got all the appropriate messages, and after the flip, Ekos plate solved and put NGC246 dead center of the image view. But PHD went off to la la land and image capture quickly aborted. RA (if RA is blue and DEC is red - I think that's the way it is) went off-screen down. I tried to simply restart guiding from that point, but RA kept going to la la land. I ended up recalibrating.

I don't seem to have much trouble with flipping, only with picking up guiding after the flip. Someone mentioned clearing alignment data and purging the data from Ekos - is there a very specific order?

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