equatorial mounting
Britishnoun
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He invented the transit instrument, mural circle, equatorial mounting for telescopes, and most of the other principal instruments now in use in observatories.
From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir
The director must, of course, have a full equatorial mounting, with circles some two hundred and fifty feet in diameter.
From Skylark Three by Wessolowski, Hans Waldemar
He therefore made a special provision that $1000 extra, to be repaid by him, should be expended in making a rough equatorial mounting in which he could test the instrument.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Newcomb, Simon
Fig. 44 shows such a telescope, or rather two telescopes, one photographic, the other visual, supported side by side upon the same equatorial mounting.
From A Text-Book of Astronomy by Comstock, George C.
This alteration and the new equatorial mounting have been admirably made by Grubb; the result is completely successful.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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