10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EQUATORIAL MOUNTING»
Discover the use of
equatorial mounting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
equatorial mounting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Principles of Astronomical Telescope Design
The tube bending in an asymmetrical equatorial mounting is complex, therefore,
large telescopes use symmetrical mountings. There are three symmetrical
equatorial mountings: the yoke design, the fork design, and the horseshoe
design.
2
Seeing Stars: The Night Sky Through Small Telescopes
Generally, if you wish to undertake long exposures through your telescope (and
most people will do so eventually, if not to begin with), then an equatorial
mounting (see below) is to be preferred to an alt-azimuth. Among the cheaper ...
C. R. Kitchin, Robert W. Forrest, 1997
3
Astronomy with a Budget Telescope: An Introduction to ...
An equatorial mounting is basically an altazimuth mounting tipped over so that
the 'azimuth' axis points towards the north celestial pole. The north celestial pole
is fairly close to the bright star Polaris in Ursa Minor (the Little Bear); Southern ...
Patrick Moore, John Watson, 2012
4
Parkes: Thirty Years of Radio Astronomy
adjustable or rigid dish structure • alt-azimuth or equatorial mounting • telescope
cost as a function of dish diameter (both mountings). Wallis was a man of big
ideas and thought in terms of a 1000-ft dish to bring out the problems. Clearly
such a ...
DE Goddard, DK Milne, 1994
5
A Complete Manual of Amateur Astronomy: Tools and Techniques ...
Aligning the German Equatorial Mounting The German equatorial mounting is a
little more difficult to align to true north, primarily because the polar axis of the
mounting and the optical axis of the telescope are not coincident. Theoretically,
they ...
P. Clay Sherrod, Thomas L. Koed, 2012
6
Astronomical Equipment for Amateurs
During the last two hundred years or so - in fact ever since telescope drives
became possible - various solutions to the problem of designing an ideal
equatorial mounting have been devised. I think it is fair to say that when a novice
first ...
7
Total Solar Eclipses and How to Observe Them
A home-made Heliostat, if designed carefully can be a much more portable and
lightweight option than a bulky German Equatorial Mounting too. Large Heliostat
systems are generally preferred by ultra-keen amateurs or professionals who ...
=1 ATER making and using the sextant described last month, it will be easy now
for you to build an astronomical telescope with an equatorial mounting. Let us
consider the mounting first, for you may already have a telescope of some kind, ...
9
The Observer's Guide to Astronomy:
12.6.2.1 An equatorial mounting This is the ideal solution, because then stars
appear as points on the photograph, which enables the equatorial coordinates of
meteors to be determined accurately when reducing the observations.
Adjustment ...
10
The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China:
And in so doing, he fully anticipated the equatorial mounting so widely used for
modern telescopes, because, with such a mounting, a rotation about only one
axis (that parallel to the earth's polar axis) is needed to follow the Fig. 108.
Diagram ...
