Sentences with phrase «equatorial mounts»
They should be put on equatorial mounts so they can follow the sun.
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The 40 cm telescopes have a Cassegrain focus, and are equipped with equatorial mounts and SBIG cameras with a field of view of 29 x 29 arcmin.
There are basically two types of telescope mounts: Altazimuth mounts and Equatorial mounts.
By contrast, the four - meter Mayall telescope a few blocks away weighs 375 tons because it has an equatorial mount aligned with Earth's axis of rotation.
It was a hell of a job to point my telescope with its equatorial mount in the right direction.
From broken farm equipment, he built his own equatorial mount so his telescope could move with the rotation of the Earth.
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Jim Peterson of Monash University in Melbourne and Geoff Hope of the Australian National University in Canberra have been studying three of the four equatorial glaciers on the summit of Mount Jaya in lrian Jaya, the Indonesian portion of the island of New Guinea.
A polar - aligned telescope, also called an equatorial - mounted telescope, parallels the axis of the Earth for its spin axis.