I'm replying just to 2nd your questions on a Kstars stable or the beta release. I had been using 3.6.9 -beta? (whats on the download page,) and it had been working on my M1 Mac Air, and Monterey. Kstars download page is dated April 1 for apparenlty for a stable release date.

But after a 'hiatus' of months due to weather and upgrade to Sonoma, when trying to use it last week, to image Comet 12P, (under Sonoma) Kstars would immediately crash when I tried to take a frame with my Canon DSLR. In an older MBP Intel , it also did not work and would put up an indi-canon-driver crashed error message -buried behind several EKOS and INDI windows. So both are completely unusable and I'm shut down for any imaging with Kstars.

If there is not a new stable release soon, that works, as others I know have, I am going to have to abandon Kstars for another software that works and is updated correctly. Its been mostly great, but if I'm far more interested in doing 'astronomy' than fiddling with code.

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