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Old 31-07-2011, 04:14 PM
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Damienandwendy (Damien)
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Originally Posted by bojan View Post
Try to rotate the mount in tripod by 180 degrees, so that the south leg becomes north leg.
Unfortunately there is a fixed stop to allow slight adjustment in azimuth to assist with polar alignment that prevents rotating the mount head 180 degrees. Just pulled it head off to see if I could. Thanks anyway though.

By the looks of it, I can probably polar align the mount with the counterweights off then rotate in RA to where I intend to look ... predominantly south to southwest where the light pollution is the least .... and remember if I swing too far the other way that the tripod leg is there.

Failing that .... smaller / modified counterweights will be the next option.

cheers

Damien
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