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Originally Posted by koputai
Proper equatorial mounts such as the....Paramounts....have the ability to have their bases adjusted in azimuth, and their altitude adjusted of course.
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The Paramount ME even has micro-levelers built-in so that getting the pier reasonably level is good enough. One just tweaks the micro-levelers for perfect level. Most people just put one level on their Paramount ME, but you can put two of them on the mount if you want to, one on each side. I've done that. Alas, the two levels give two different readings, so I average them.
But back to the original topic of adapter plates. In my mind an "Adapter Plate" isn't for leveling, it's for adapting incompatible mounting bolt patterns and sizes, which in an ideal world should only be the case when putting a new mount on an old pier that was originally made for a different mount.