Having solved the issues with Polar Alignment stopping after first rotation I was now in a position to actually trying to do polar alignment with my Stellarmate Pro, using the EKos PAA. I succeeded in improving my polar alignment, but I was not able to get it all the way.

I used the Plate Solve PAA method. After the initial several refreshes, and moving the altitude and azimuth knobs, the solver started failing more and more. In spite of the warning to please be patient, I thought five or six 10-second timeouts was patience enough and gave up. Made several attempts this way,(Park, Unpark, Start PAA again) all ended incomplete. I was able to get both alt and azimuth to under a degree, but not under a minute. It seemed the closer I got, the more the solver was failing. Not sure if it's something I was doing wrong, or if other options would be better. The options i used were the defaults in all cases. There are so many options to choose from, I am not sure which could be improved for my situation with my Celestron AVX mount and C8 SCT. Hopefully, someone can give me ideas to try. Would the "Move Star" method give better results? The problems I had with that was that the triangle was never completely within the displayed capture image. The Plate Solve method seemed easier.

One criticism I have with the PlateSolve PAA method is that the display shows the initial amount of error and direction of error, but the amount of error after adjustment was constantly appearing and disappearing from the screen. I don't understand why it wouldn't be a good idea to display the current amount of error as well as the initial amount of error in a stable way. It would help the user to know how much progress he has made overall.

Thanks to anyone reading this, and hopefully someone will be able to offer some suggestions.

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