Drawing attached to hopefully explain the concept
It’s seems long winded and daunting but once you do it a few times it takes only a few minutes to set your tripod and get on with setting home position, balancing and then polar alignment
I gave up a few times at first but I was determined to achieve it and now I’m really enjoying the hobby both observing and imaging the universe
There are many other ways to set up an equatorial Mount but mine works for me every time
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