- 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...
- A
Dobsonian telescope is an
altazimuth-mounted
Newtonian telescope design po****rized by John
Dobson in 1965 and
credited with
vastly increasing the size...
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refer to:
Horizontal coordinate system, or altitude-azimuth
coordinates Altazimuth mount, a two-axis
telescope mount This
disambiguation page
lists articles...
- system, 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...
-
celestial coordinates.
Equatorial mounts differ from
mechanically simpler altazimuth mounts,
which require variable speed motion around both axes to track...
- Green,
Spherical Astronomy, page 45
Altazimuth Telescope Mount. Planetfacts.org.
Accessed April 13, 2012.
Altazimuth Mounts. Astronomics.com.
Accessed April...
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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...
- was
taken down in the 1890s. The 1890s also saw the
construction of the
Altazimuth Pavilion,
completed in 1896 and
designed by
William Crisp. In 1898 the...
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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...
- Альт-азимутальный, romanized: Bolshoi
Teleskop Alt-azimutalnyi, lit. 'Large
Altazimuth Telescope') is a 6-metre (20 ft)
aperture optical telescope at the Special...
