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Aren't adapter plates just a load of twaddle?
The way I see it, you only need an adapter plate on your pier if you have a wedge mounted Meade or Celestron alt/az mount.
Proper equatorial mounts such as the EQ5/EQ6 and all its rebranded siblings, Takahasi's, Paramounts etc all have the ability to have their bases adjusted in azimuth, and their altitude adjusted of course. With these two adjustments you can just mount the base directly on top of the pier and still achieve polar alignment. Yet everyone whacks on an adapter plate, perched on top of three or four flexy bolts.
Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but are people just putting adapter plates on just because everyone else is?
Cheers,
Jason.
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