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    An astrograph (or astrographic camera) is a telescope designed for the sole purpose of astrophotography. Astrographs are mostly used in wide-field astronomical...
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    housed in a wooden dome resting on automobile tires. 33 cm (13-inch) astrograph used to discover Pluto The Rotunda Museum: Built in 1916, it is used by...
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  • The USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC) is an astrometric star catalog of the United States Naval Observatory. "UCAC5 - nowy katalog pozycji i ruchów własnych...
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    Starting April 6, 1929, Tombaugh used the observatory's 13-inch (330 mm) astrograph to take photographs of the same section of sky several nights apart. He...
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    the photographic plates. The principal telescope of EACUC is a double astrograph consisting of two lenses each 20-inches (50.8 cm) in diameter, one designed...
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    the most probable stars to host life dwarf stars of types F, G, and K. Astrograph – Type of telescope Guest star – Ancient Chinese name for cataclysmic...
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    First, a region of the sky was photographed by a wide-field telescope or astrograph. Pairs of photographs were taken, typically one hour apart. Multiple pairs...
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  • telescope Schmidt–Väisälä camera Telescopes classified by the task performed Astrograph Astronomical optical interferometry Comet seeker Finderscope GoTo telescopes...
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    of varying optical design classified by the task they perform such as astrographs, comet seekers and solar telescopes. Most ultraviolet light is absorbed...
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    1955 48 cm Cassegrain Reflector - mounted in 1968 40 cm Zeiss Double Astrograph - mounted in 1978 125 cm Ritchey–Chrétien Reflector - mounted in 1977...
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  • Charlottesville 781 Quito Observatory - Quito 782 Quito, comet astrograph station - Quito, comet astrograph station 783 Rixeyville Observatory VA Rixeyville 784...
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  • (PANOSETI) project telescopes were installed in the Lick Observatory Astrograph Dome. The project aims to commence a wide-field optical SETI search and...
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  • Observatory JPL · 8036 8039 Grandprism 1993 RB16 The Grand Prism Objectiv-40 cm astrograph (GPO), used without prism, has served for many years for searching for...
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    sequel to The Sea Priestess. Jaffer, Hassan (2005) Moon Magic. Willowdale: Astrograph Inc. An annually published astrological self-help guide by astrologer...
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  • marketed as EdgeHD A range of 8", 11", and 36 cm Rowe-Ackermann Schmidt Astrographs (RASA) A range of 2.4 to 6-inch (150 mm) refractor telescopes. 6 to 10-inch...
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    36 cm D = 30 cm f = 5,4 m f = 5,1 m Zeiss Jena Astrograph D = 30 cm f = 1,5 m Vixen VISAC Astrograph D = 20 cm f = 1,8/1,355 m Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain...
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    camera Maksutov MC MTO-11CA Samyang 500mm f/8 Nikon 500mm f/8 reflex lens Astrograph Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope Catoptrics Dioptrics Image-forming optical...
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    Carte du Ciel making 463,542 observations. It boasted of an 8" Cooke Astrograph and a 15" Grubb refractor telescope. It was founded by Nawab Zafar Yar...
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  • engraved more than 100. These include Vielsalm, Towers of Ghent and Double astrograph at the Royal Observatory of Uccle. In 1977 he was honored with the Prize...
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    Zacharias, N.; et al. (2003). "The Second U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC2)". CDS/ADC Collection of Electronic Catalogues. 1289. Bibcode:2003yCat...
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    (Russian: Павел Бахтинов) in 2005. Precise focusing of telescopes and astrographs is critical to performing astrophotography. The telescope is pointed...
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    vernacular) in a blink comparator taken with a refracting telescope, an astrograph with a 3 element 13-inch lens. Examples of some of the largest achromatic...
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    in the summer of 1936. As the main instrument of the observatory, an astrograph was ordered to Carl Zeiss Jena in Germany on December 11, 1935. The instrument...
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    Magellanic Clouds, as recorded on photographic plates taken with the Bruce Astrograph of the Boyden Station of the Harvard Observatory in Arequipa, Peru. She...
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    search for transient astronomical events. They often use wide-field astrographs. Sky surveys, unlike targeted observation of a specific object, allow...
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    powerful new dual 16 in (41 cm) refractor telescope, the Bruce double astrograph. For many years this telescope was the observatory's main research instrument...
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    The Carnegie telescope (i.e. Carnegie double astrograph) is a twin 20-inch (510 mm) refractor telescope located at Lick Observatory in California, United...
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    2014 by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov using a 0.3-meter (12 in) astrograph. It is the third comet discovered by Borisov. The comet is best viewed...
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    measured the plates of its zone, using a standardized telescope (a "normal astrograph") so each plate photographed had a similar scale of approximately 60 arcsecs/mm...
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    dark matter halo of this galaxy. The Carnegie telescope (Carnegie Double Astrograph) was intended to study this problem of Galactic rotation. In the late...
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