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Thanks Guys. I will post a picture of my rig. I will set it up tonight and then post some images tomorrow. I do have K3ccdtools reg version and webcams so I will try that also tonight. What I do is set the wede to face south using a compas. I allow for 8 degrees veriation east as that is the magnetic variation for Adelaide, I know this from being a pilot. Then I make sure my wedge is a 35 degrees using an electronic Protractor. When I am setup I am pretty well on the mark as I have done a Startrails and can see from my picture that I am in the right place. My scope is also setup pretty well in the same spot I took the startrails images. My main concern is that I can't see the correct stars for aligning to the SCP. I have looked at images and spent time with the bino's but can't seem to make head or tail. If I just assume I am pretty close and turn on the LX200 and tell it I am im polar home position it then slews to Sirius. I center that in the eypeice and press ok. The slew to Sirius is way out however. I them get a alignment success. I then slew to a star overhead of me and put in the reticle. I RA back and forth usint the hand controller so that I can get the Cross hairs so that the star moves along the east west line. I then center the star and watch. the star drifts to the bottom of my eypeice but stays on the verticle line. No matter what I do to the Az adjustment on the wedge this star movement does not seem to stop moving down the eyepiece. This is my problem that I don't seem to be able to get past... If I still have trouble usint software tonight I may contact you Rigel003. I am happy to take my stuff to site for help. I have every software package know on the net and every webcam combo you care to name. So whatever way is best I am sure I will have whats needed. I am also going to try PHD tonight as this has a drift alignment method. I think I am getting most of it correct, but am missing one small process somewhere and a whole lot of hair.
Seeing Stars
Mardy
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