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    An altazimuth mount or alt-azimuth mount is a simple two-axis mount for supporting and rotating an instrument about two perpendicular axes – one vertical...
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    A Dobsonian telescope is an altazimuth-mounted Newtonian telescope design popularized by John Dobson in 1965 and credited with vastly increasing the size...
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    Spherical Astronomy, page 45 Altazimuth Telescope Mount. Planetfacts.org. Accessed April 13, 2012. Altazimuth Mounts. Astronomics.com. Accessed April...
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    objects by their celestial coordinates. Equatorial mounts differ from mechanically simpler altazimuth mounts, which require variable speed motion around both...
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    A ball turret is a spherical-shaped, altazimuth mount gun turret, fitted to some American-built aircraft during World War II. The name arose from the turret's...
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    the alt/az system, or the alt-azimuth system, among others. In an altazimuth mount of a telescope, the instrument's two axes follow altitude and azimuth...
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    design: an unusually thin mirror, an alt-az mount and co-rotating dome. The optical telescope has Altazimuth mount and a primary mirror with a focal length...
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    encouraging an interest in science by young people. It is supported by an altazimuth mount. The telescope is owned and operated by LCOGT. This telescope and its...
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  • are mounted on different types of mounts. Fixed mount Transit mount Zenith mount Altazimuth mount Alt-alt (altitude-altitude) mount Equatorial mount Equatorial...
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    while others had an altazimuth mount for measuring horizontal and vertical angles. Gregorius Reisch illustrated an altazimuth instrument in the appendix...
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    mirror shape. Each Keck telescope sits on an altazimuth mount. Most current 8–10 m class telescopes use altazimuth designs for their reduced structural requirements...
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    approximately one degree, with a plate scale of 1.17 arcsec/mm. It has an Altazimuth mount. The telescope is housed in a tower 35 meters away from the control...
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    Gregorian telescope in an altazimuth mount (at the poles, an altazimuth mount is effectively identical to an equatorial mount). It was designed to allow...
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    technique, now standard in large astronomical telescopes, of using an altazimuth mount with a computer-controlled derotator. For a variety of reasons, BTA-6...
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    Meinel, a co-rotating building and an altitude-azimuth mount. With the exception of the Large Altazimuth Telescope and William Herschel's 40-foot telescope...
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    are often used with altazimuth mounted telescopes, such as the common Dobsonian telescope type, to overcome that type of mount's inability to track the...
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    manufacturers to add equatorial tracking to mechanically simpler altazimuth mounts. GoTo mounts are pre-aligned before use. When it is powered on, it may ask...
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    additional mirrors in a long twisting path through the axes of the altazimuth mount, so the antenna can be steered without interrupting the beam, and then...
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    with an equatorial mount. More recent large telescopes have instead adopted the more compact and mechanically stable altazimuth mount. The AAT was, however...
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    is conventional: an altitude over azimuth mount made of steel, with hydrostatic bearings on both axes, mounted on a pier which is isolated from the dome...
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    vertical and the secondary horizontal, so the mirror is on an alt-azimuth mount. One simple alternative is for the mirror to rotate around a polar aligned...
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    equatorial mounted telescope is the 200 inch (5.1 m) Hale Telescope, whereas recent 8–10 m telescopes use the structurally better altazimuth mount, and are...
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    classic zenith telescope, also known as a zenith sector employs a strong altazimuth mount, fitted with levelling screws. Extremely sensitive levels are attached...
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  • Telescope mount - Types include: Altazimuth mount Equatorial mount Equatorial platform Poncet Platform Fork mount German equatorial mount Springfield mount Mirrors...
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    introductory telescope. Rather than using a more traditional equatorial or altazimuth mount the Astroscan features a spherical housing around the primary reflector...
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    10,700-foot (3,300 m) Mount Graham, in the Pinaleno Mountains of southeastern Arizona, United States. It is a part of the Mount Graham International Observatory...
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    street lights in Copenhagen, Rømer also invented the meridian circle, the altazimuth, and the passage instrument (also known as the transit instrument, a type...
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    antenna (BWG) on altazimuth mount, located in Venus, California. ~910 m2 aperture. DSS 14: "Mars" 70m Cassegrain reflector on Alt/Az mount. ~3850 m2 aperture...
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  • vertical and horizontal direction of the view in the telescope. With an altazimuth mount, those directions are rotated by the amount of the parallactic angle...
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    Telescope. Its Equatorial mount is what sets it apart from most other radio telescopes, most of which have an Altazimuth mount. This makes it specifically...
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