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RE: Working In Northern & Southern Hemispheres
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Hans G. Gnodtke on November 1, 2000 19:01:52 UTC |
I observed in Southern _Africa and the northern hemissphere. assumption 1 is correct, assumption 2 is not. If you set up your scope to align with the opposite pole, then it also needs to turn in the opposite direction to compensate for earths rotation. Therefore a scope to be used in either hemisphere must have a switch to turn clock- and counterclockwise.
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