AstroNerd wrote: Well if it helps at all, I have never been able to get an image solved from around the pole...
My manual pre-setup includes levelling the tripod; and using a compass and inclinometer app, to get my heading and elevation as accurate as possible. And based on the attached photo, it appears that I am able to achieve a pretty good alignment just by that.
Maybe that is the issue? Should I introduce some degree of error in order to get Ekos to solve?