yes it's just what I did
from my terrace I can see the south meridian and I was pointing over there, and the normal plate solving worked well.
but a question, in the guide a read about "polar alignment" to align directly to ncp and "legacy polar alignment" to align when ncp is not visible, is it right? but I don't have the legacy version next to the normal polar alignment! x(

However now I'm trying to plate solve and polar allign with the simulator profile trying to understand if I'm doing something wrong:
1. I star ekos with a parking position near the ncp
2. I do a goto to a near star
3. I launch the capture and solve with sync but It doesn't works

2021-12-09T22:57:40 Solver Failed.
2021-12-09T22:57:40 Solver was aborted, timed out, or failed, so no solution was found
2021-12-09T22:57:40 Starting Internal StellarSolver Astrometry.net based Engine with the 1-Default profile. . .
2021-12-09T22:57:40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2021-12-09T22:57:40 Image width 320 pixels; arcsec per pixel range: 4.61107 to 8.64576
2021-12-09T22:57:40 Scale range: 24.5924 to 46.1107 arcmin wide
2021-12-09T22:57:39 Configuring StellarSolver
2021-12-09T22:57:39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2021-12-09T22:57:39 Stars Found after Filtering: 3
2021-12-09T22:57:39 Stars Found before Filtering: 3
2021-12-09T22:57:39 Starting Internal StellarSolver Sextractor with the 1-Default profile . . .
2021-12-09T22:57:39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2021-12-09T22:57:39 There should be enough RAM to load the indexes in parallel.
2021-12-09T22:57:39 Note: Free RAM for now is reported as Installed RAM on MacOS until I figure out how to get available RAM
2021-12-09T22:57:39 Evaluating Installed RAM for inParallel Option. Total Size of Index files: 5.22389 GB, Installed RAM: 8 GB, Free RAM: 8 GB
2021-12-09T22:57:39 Image received.
2021-12-09T22:57:29 Capturing image...

but 1 hour ago it was working well (only the capture and solve but not the next polar alignment step)! I can't understand, I'v changed nothing and now it dosn't works
could this problem be related with the polar alignment problem..?
thank you for your patience!

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