Which consequence arises when repeated thermal cycling distorts an astrolabe's alidade?

💡 Explanation

Thermally-induced stresses cause creep in the alidade lever arm, an example of strain hardening. This results in incorrect angular alignment, introducing observational errors, therefore stellar altitude measurements become inaccurate rather than creating errors predicting ecliptical celestial events.

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