I am sure that the hand controller's PEC setting was off prior to the first connection from KStars/INDI. The last time I tried PEC on that mount was over a year ago (it was a disaster with auto guiding), but I did check it on the hand controller prior to connecting because it was the first time I set up that mount in a while and I wasn't sure if the RTC battery was good. The only other thing I changed was the Tracking option in the INDI driver (it started tracking immediately on connection, which is not something it did in the past).

Maybe this only affects the CEM40, I don't know... but because it caused me a lost night of imaging, I thought it important to post a notice for others.

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