Which mechanism causes systematic declination errors when sighting celestial objects with a corroded brass astrolabe?

💡 Explanation

Galvanic corrosion causes metal loss, thinning the alidade, therefore producing errors when aligning to stars, because preferential metal dissolution changes instrument geometry, rather than creep deforming a component uniformly or hysteresis causing backlash.

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