Hey....Have a great time at the event (been to Gardner several times...good memories there).

On the topic of PA software, I have in the past been critical of this PA software, but I'll note that just yesterday, I tested out the new 3.5.5 beta release, and as I had hoped, this fixed the same issue for me. In my case, the issue was that someone had worked on the INDI Celestron GPS mount driver and switched the axis senses (confirmed in the forum). This reversed my knob response directions, screwed up drift align directions, and also made PA alignment software null/void. Your problem may have a different root cause, but if your vectors don't correlate to the knobs, it's highly likely that somehow, your mount axis senses are reversed or swapped as compared to what the PA software is expecting. I also heard from the developer during the whole process that bugs were fixed along the way (so maybe an update would help). I still have some doubts about precision, but from a test last night, it seems to get close. Just a thought as you debug further..... CS Doug

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