The Telescope Handbook and Star AtlasCONTAINS APPENDIXES, GLOSSARY, REFERENCE MATERIAL AND INDEX RELATING TO CELESTIAL GEOGRAPHY, TIME, TELESCOPES, SUN, MOON, PLANETS, STARS, PHOTOGRAPHY, OCCULATIONS, APPULSES AND ECLIPSES. |
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1970 Position Map amateur angle angular diameter aperture appear astigmatism astronomical axis Barlow lens blue bright brighter camera Cassegrainian celestial equator charts circle clouds color coma comet constellation craters curve dark Decl Deneb diffuse nebulae disk distance earth eclipse ecliptic equatorial eyepiece field film filters finder focal length focus galaxy globular cluster heavens inches instrument Jupiter lens lenses light look lunar magnification Mars meridian Messier meteorites meteors Milky Way Boundaries million miles moon Mount Wilson Nebula objects observers open cluster optical orbit Palomar Observatories period photographs planet planetary polar primary mirror reflector refractor right ascension rings rotation Sagittarius satellite Saturn Scorpius seconds of arc seen setting circles sidereal small telescopes solar spherical aberration star atlas surface tele telescope tion tube Variable Stars Venus visible Wilson and Palomar Yellow ΚΟ