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Originally Posted by astroboy
I may be wrong but most mounts you can get around this by not having the counter weight over the tripod leg .
All you need to do is move the azmuth pin ( thats on top of the tripod ) 180 degrees .
Should work well as long as its not a very heavy load.
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You should always have the counterweight over a leg. It's not so important with a light load but a heavy set of counterweights can tip the tripod over while setting things up or tearing down.
Darwin is probably too far north to let you safely shorten the south facing leg to get the adjuster to be able to reach the correct angle.
Brian's suggestion of a pier extension with wedge is sensible, but it has to have an adjustment to let you get beyond the minimum latitude the mount supports.