Okay, so firstly I hope I didn't accidentally spam this topic. When I posted it I kept getting an error, so I kept reposting until I quit out of frustration. But obviously at least one of those posting attempts went through, so I'm guessing others did too so...sorry about that admins!

In regards to focusing, changing to linear did the trick! I saw this a few minutes ago as I was observing and quickly switched the settings, and sure enough the stars went from flat disks to proper points. I also changed the annulus settings so that the center of the frame and edges can't be used. Now the question is do I throw out all of the data I've gathered these past few weeks because it's been out of focus?...I'm thinking probably not, I'll just fix the stars in post!

I tried having it wait to do the meridian flip for 10 minutes after passing the meridian, but it did not work. However, in the EQMOD settings in the INDI control panel, there is an option that lets you select the target pier side. I switched this to East(pointing west) from auto a few minutes before the flip, and low and behold it flipped with no issues! I see this as a temporary fix though because I'm forcing the mount to be on the east side of the pier, which could be catastrophic if I leave that setting for when I need to point East.

I've located the twilight offsets, thanks! Indeed I do have the observation running through the scheduler, but since I never finish a job in a night, it doesn't warm the camera because the twilight limits just pause it. Is there another way I could run sessions that might circumvent this? Maybe I should just shorten the sequence, but I leave it intentionally long so that the plan doesn't finish while it's still dark.

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