And finally some progress

Ive spent the last 3 months (not very much good weather yet) trying to sort out the polar alignment on my new scope and I would always find that after I did an alignment it would be way off. I finally got some sense and took everything off the scope except for what was needed to do a polar alignment which included unpluging the camera from the guider port. As soon as I did this the drift id could not pinpoint went away. I pluged the guider cord back in and it started its slow slew again. Needless to say it didnt take me very long to get an execelent polar alignment after unpluging the guider. Now I have to figure out why the camera guider is getting a signal when it shouldnt be......

My equipment list

Celestron 11" EdgeHD OTA
Celestron CGEM mount
Home made 8" peir
Celestron 8X50 finder
Dragon Lasers 95mw green laser pointer mounted to scope
Robofocus
Meade 2" flip mirror
Sbig 2000XCM
Sbig AO8 Adaptive optics
Watec 902H B&W video camera .0003 lux
Sony A900 24.6MP full frame cmos DSLR (no heat :) )
Starizona Hyperstar III with Sony A900 adapter, Watec adapter, and Sbig adapter
SkyShed POD XL5
Various filters and lens

Heres some pix

Redshift Observatory

Well, im in process of setting up and learning to use my astronomy observatory. More soon