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by labcomputer 1986 days ago
That’s correct, but equatorial mounts also solve the problem of field rotation on long exposures (which, like the control problem, can be fixed with computers—-just stack short exposures and rotate in software). Field rotation isn’t an issue for radio astronomy, of course.

I’m not sure I would say that equatorial mounts are less compact though.