Thanks Jerry. To be clear, the mount does work. It has accuracy limitations that aren't out of line with its price, and as I say, if I'm shooting a single target an evening then as long as I look after centering every couple of hours I've managed a few nice shots. However I had hoped that with Stellarmate I could shoot 2 or 3 targets each evening which so far I just cannot do. Possibly Astroberry of some other computer solution would be better but I've never gotten the plate solver to work automatically with Stellarmate and the drift is way worse (FOR ME!!!) with Stellarmate than the SynScan phone app so I'm never up for much more than 4 hours a night - set it up, run 2 hours, recenter, run 2 hours, shut down.

I had hoped that, being a low cost mount, there'd be a few people anyway using it with the whole Ekos/Indi infrastructure but apparently not.

In the next month or so I'll start gearing up for next winter and clearer skies. Maybe I'll do better this year.

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