Hi Rob,

It was clear last night so I used 3.5.5. beta outside for the first time. My setup is Astroberry (current version) on Rpi running Indilib and connected to devices and Kstars / Ekos 3.5.5. beta on my Mac. Here's my feedback.
1. Polar Align. The East / West and Angle are greyed out so I was forced to use West / 30 as I couldn't change these fields. It worked fine but less convenient.
2. Setup screen. Graphs (focus / guide) fit their frames now so much improved.
3. Plate solving - worked as expected, all good.
4. Focus. Worked as expected, all good.
5. Guiding, Much better numbers (in fact almost a 100% improvement in RMS). Not sure I believe this, seems too good to be true. Was dithering and using GPG. When I process the subs I'll see if the improvement is real. Had some dew / fog problems so guiding did get a bit lost at several points and needed being restarted several times. I suspect this was conditions nothing to do with the software and I don't think the previous version would have done any better,
7. Analysis screen - worked as expected.
8. Kstars crashes. There were none all night!!!! This is the first time in ages Kstars has run all night without crashing.

Cheers!

John.
 

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