Re: leveling a tripod


Stephen Paul wrote:
Fred Scharmann wrote:
Why is leveling so unimportant to you?

Thinking otherwise is a common misunderstanding...

Quite the opposite...


The polar axis of a mount is an imaginary line that extends from the
azimuth pivot of the mount to the celestial pole. Everything in the sky
rotates around this axis.

The azimuth pivot is the axis the equatorial head rotates about when
adjusting the azimuth. It is NOT the RA axis which is the one that
needs to be aligned to the celestial polar axis.

Andrea T.

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