Hey everyone,

When testing out my rig last night, when I tried to use “Slew to Target” in the Alignment Module, the mount would move too slowly to be able to successfully get the alignment error to within 30 arcseconds in the specified 30 iteration limit. My initial alignment error was 10,000 arcseconds, but each iterative mount slew after i+1 was so small that it couldn’t possibly reduce this down by the 30th iteration. What I mean by that is, the solver indicated an error of 10,000 arcseconds, but only commanded a corrective movement of like 100 arcseconds at a time.

In the past when slew to target was successful (on an earlier Kstars build), for an equivalent pointing error of 10,000 arcseconds, the iterative slews were both larger and commanded at a faster slew rate.

Is there a setting somewhere that adjusts the aggressiveness of the slew corrections?

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