telescope mountings

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• telescope — /tel euh skohp /, n., adj., v., telescoped, telescoping. n. 1. an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens… …   Universalium

• Hexapod-Telescope — Engineers of the company Vertex in collaboration with astronomers of the [http://www.astro.rub.de Astronomy Department] (AIRUB) of the [http://www.rub.de Ruhr Universität Bochum] in Germany developed a concept for a revolutionary design of… …   Wikipedia

• Dobsonian telescope — A Dobsonian telescope on display at Stellafane in the early 1980s A Dobsonian telescope is an alt azimuth mounted newtonian telescope design popularized by the amateur astronomer John Dobson starting in the 1960s. Dobson s telescopes featured a… …   Wikipedia

• James Clerk Maxwell Telescope — The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is a 15 metre submillimetre wavelength telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii. It is the largest astronomical telescope in the world designed specifically to operate in the submillimetre regime… …   Wikipedia

• Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope — The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) (near camp Westerbork, north of the village of Westerbork, Midden Drenthe, in the northeastern Netherlands) is an aperture synthesis interferometer that consists of a linear array of 14 antennas… …   Wikipedia

• Equatorial mount — An equatorial mount is a mount that has one rotational axis parallel to the Earth s axis of rotation [cite web | url = http://www.astrogea.org/soldevilla/las monturas.htm | title = LAS MONTURAS | publisher = Observatorio J. A. Soldevilla] [cite… …   Wikipedia

• Clayton Cramer — Clayton E. Cramer is a historian, author, and software engineer. He played an important early role in documenting errors in the book Arming America by Michael A. Bellesiles, a book that was later proven to be based on fraudulent research. His… …   Wikipedia

• Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Gun — Infobox Weapon name=Type 96 25 mm dual purpose gun caption=A US military photograph of a captured dual gun emplacement on Guam in 1944. origin=flag|Empire of Japan type=Autocannon Anti Aircraft/Anti tank gun is ranged=yes is artillery=yes service …   Wikipedia

• Binoculars — Binocular telescopes, or binoculars (also known as field glasses), are two identical or mirror symmetrical telescopes mounted side by side and aligned to point accurately in the same direction, allowing the viewer to use both eyes (binocular… …   Wikipedia

• Armillary sphere — An armillary sphere (variations are known as spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of the celestial sphere. Description and use of the armillary sphere The exterior parts of this machine are a compages of brass rings, which represent …   Wikipedia

• George Willis Ritchey — (December 31 1864 ndash; November 4 1945) was an American optician and telescope maker and astronomer born at Tuppers Plains, Ohio.Ritchey was educated as a furniture maker. He coinvented the Ritchey Chrétien reflector telescope along with Henri… …   Wikipedia