Got a weird thing happening, wondered if someone could give me some assistance:

Equipment: EQ4 GEM, Konus Konusky-200 Motor Scope

When doing a polar alignment for my mount, I get Polaris in the eyepiece and aligned in the polar scope (assume for this discussion I'm not worried about an exact alignment, just centered in the polar scope cross-hairs). Then, I align the finder on Polaris. When I look through my 17mm eyepiece, I see polaris, but it's usually too high up. I have to adjust the latitude control on the mount to bring it into center (neither RA or DEC knobs make any change here, and probably shouldn't if I understand this stuff right). Then, I readjust the finder scope so now they show Polaris centered. Looking back through the polar scope, it shows Polaris too low.

I'm guessing that my polar scope is out of alignment. In Miami, at latitude 25.xx, I found also that I had to remove the T-Bar that controlled the bottom limit of the latitude adjustment on the mount.

Do these things seem normal?

DJ