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Not trying to sound make this sound like a "duh" moment but if a head can have the camera point straight down doesn't that mean it would be pointing straight up if faced the other way?

My only experience is with the Polaris so I really can't say what others can do. I would assume that the equatorial mounts have a full range since those are what most astro photographers use.

I was doing that with ok results but too often I would find that when it would come time to crop some of the larger ones I would always end up with a crop that would chop off something or be too tight. Since using the Polaris I have gotten panos that I never would have even attempted by hand. I have gotten great night panos that required multi second exposures or even ones that just required lots of images because I was using a long focal length.

It isn't that you can't be successful doing panos by hand, it is just that you can do so much more and not have to worry about missing an overlap or not leaving enough space for the crop.

Love the Sony 90mm macro but it is now the oldest Sony lens that doesn't have an update. I hear the Tamron is just as good and cheaper.