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Old 29-11-2009, 10:53 PM
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5ash (Philip)
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To my mind , if the axes of the scope and polar axis are parallel then as the polar axis rotates the telescope should point and move in a small circle around the south pole. It would therefore never see the south pole as does a fork mounted eq mount.So how many /fractions thereof degrees from the pole would the circumference of the circle be??It would surely have to be related to the distance of the telescope from the polar axis.
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