Continuing all,
I recently wrote:
> I suppose I could test this by doing a *very* slight jog with the mount
> control before engaging the Polar Alignment routine -- is that even
> worth trying? (I'm obviously desperate for a solution
)
Well, I tried it last night, and -- it worked! I actually got quite a good
polar alignment (less than one arcminute from the pole) using the
westerly rotation and the non-diagonal (i.e., non-ONAG) parity of
the downloaded image. Testing the "flipped" parity case will have to
wait for another night.
Now, there was a nightly-build update in-between the time I wrote
the original problem statement and the test, so I can't say if something
changed in the driver, or if it was my tiny jog that did it. I ran out of
time for testing, otherwise I would have verified that.
Thanks to all who put some thought into this feature. I will post
further test results when I can (now that I *can* test it!).
Greg