This is awesome - one interesting trap though is I found the recommendations to move the 'left' and 'right' knobs reversed in the software. I have set it to southern hemisphere but after about 3 full runs (and making suggested adjustments) it was just getting further and further away. I applied my brain a little and did the opposite of what it suggested and it worked perfectly.
I wouldn't use planets. Don't they move at a different rate to stars?
I followed the recommendations and got improvements. That is odd. Do you have the latest build of Sky X? It may have been a bug that was fixed. If so you should report that to SB so they can add a correction to their latest build.
Greg.