Which limitation arose from the 'spider' design in historical astrolabes?

💡 Explanation

Astrolabes used a rotating 'spider' to represent celestial objects; however, small cutouts limited the overall light gathering ability because the small openings occluded fainter background stars, therefore fainter stars were omitted, rather than errors in positional accuracy.

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