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Originally Posted by dannat
you still have to allow for the latitude at the source, the pole sits at a diff angle for everyone depending on where you are, if you use a flat tripod -the rotation will be out slightly & you will get egg shaped or worse stars.
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Latitude is included in GPS, so if the mount had that info the angle would be accurate. If you had latitude, longitude, and altitude, what else would you need?
I can see your point about flat/level tripod. What about if the entire mount was in a gyroscope that leveled out? That might be adding complexity, and I guess leveling out a tripod isn't so hard, as it can even be done digitally.
btw, I'm not trying to be difficult here, I am just trying to understand why is hasn't been done before. The technical reasons for it. Happy to learn that, if anything!