-
Transit Circle (a
meridian transit circle).
Troughton afterwards abandoned the idea and
designed the
mural circle to take the
place of the
mural quadrant...
-
frescoes helped establish the
mural movement in
Mexican and
international art.
Between 1922 and 1953,
Rivera painted murals in,
among other places, Mexico...
- catalogue,
Catalogue of Cir****polar Stars. The
advantage of a
transit circle over a
mural circle (which can
measure polar distances) is that it
allows measuring...
- the true
distance to
Alpha Centauri by
analysing his many
astrometric mural circle observations. He then
realised this
system also
likely had a high proper...
- A
mural crown (Latin:
corona muralis) is a
crown or
headpiece representing city walls, towers, or fortresses. In
classical antiquity, it was an emblem...
- firm
produced hundreds of
astronomical instruments such as
mural circles,
transit circles, ****tants, and
other astronomical instruments for observatories...
- to
observe the
return of Halley's
Comet that year. In 1837 the
Gambey mural circle was installed, and also a
transit instrument, also by Gambey. In 1857...
- main
positional devices were the
Troughton Transit instrument and a
mural circle, but
after George Biddell Airy took over as
Astronomer Royal in 1835...
- The
Philips circle pattern (also
referred to as the
Philips pattern or PTV
Circle pattern)
refers to a
family of
related electronically generated complex...
-
including a
larger refractor on an
equatorial mounting, a
meridian transit,
mural circle, etc.
Markree Observatory added a 3-inch
aperture Comet S****er on an...
