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Originally Posted by bluesilver
Thanks for the advises, appreciated.
It would seam then, that it is best to level the tripod then.
I might take a look at making up some wide wooden chocks or something similar as 3.3 degrees is a good amount of distance if the legs of the tripod are about 1 meter apart.
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Personally I would not use chocks, wooden or otherwise. The most important thing is that the tripod and mount are very stable and immobile. 5 microns movement at 1 metre equates to 1 arcsecond.
And to make setting up easier the more consistently you can set up the tripod the better. I drilled indentations into the concrete to locate the tripod feet. Others have glued washers and so on. If you mark the shortened leg position or even e.g. tap in a screw for a hard stop then when you set up each time you wil be much closer to polar aligned.