Which distortion arises when projecting the celestial sphere onto a flat astrolabe plate?

💡 Explanation

When projecting the celestial sphere, the stereographic projection is used because conformal mapping preserves local angles around any given point on the sphere. Therefore stereographic projection preserves angles, rather than area, relative distance, or shape, which are goals of other projection types.

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