Editing Equatorial mount (section)

===Equatorial platform===
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An '''[[equatorial platform]]''' is a specially designed platform that allows any device sitting on it to track on an equatorial axis.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2lIwU313wgkC&dq=equatorial+platform&pg=PA168  Philip S. Harrington, Star Ware: The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to Choosing, Buying, and Using Telescopes and Accessories, page 168]</ref> It achieves this by having a surface that pivots about a "virtual polar axis". This gives equatorial tracking to anything sitting on the platform, from small cameras up to entire observatory buildings. These platforms are often used with [[altazimuth mount]]ed [[Amateur astronomy|amateur astronomical]] telescopes, such as the common [[Dobsonian telescope]] type, to overcome that type of mount's inability to track the night sky.