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Equatorial mount is pretty simple. You have your axis of rotation pointing at the nearest
pole and at an angle which is equal to your latitude. There is a stationary cooking pot
or heat collector at each red mark in the drawing. The white curved paper represents
the parabolic dishes. This one is rotating on a line that would be passing through your
cooking pot. This one is rotating on a line that would be passing through your cooking
pot. Focus is on the cooking pot so because it is rotating on that line and because the
focus is on that all the time it stays right there. You set it up in the morning to line
up with the sun, 15 degrees per hour and all day and the sun keeps shining on your cooking
pot, on both of them. In equinox so equniox is here and here, So same deal equinox 15
degrees per hour slowly rotating following the sun so this is pointing at the sun and
the focus is on this the entire day. And finally high summer, so this is up here, the sun is
up high and this one goes down low.