altazimuth telescope
1altazimuth — [alt΄az′ə məth] n. [ ALT(ITUDE) + AZIMUTH] an instrument or a telescope mounting that moves on a horizontal and a vertical axis, used to measure the altitude and azimuth of a star, planet, etc …
2Altazimuth mount — An Altazimuth or alt azimuth mount is a simple mount used for moving a telescope, camera, helostatic mirror, or solar panel along two perpendicular axes of motion, one vertical and one horizontal. The vertical movement is known as the altitude ,… …
3Telescope mount — A telescope mount is a mechanical structure which supports a telescope. Telescope mounts are designed to support the mass of the telescope and allow for accurate pointing of the instrument. Many sorts of mounts have been developed over the years …
4altazimuth — noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary altitude + azimuth Date: 1860 a telescope mounted so that it can swing horizontally and vertically; also any of several other similarly mounted instruments …
5altazimuth — noun A telescope or surveying instrument that has a mount permitting both horizontal and vertical rotation …
6altazimuth — [al tazɪməθ] noun 1》 Astronomy a telescope mounting that moves in azimuth (about a vertical axis) and in altitude (about a horizontal axis). Compare with equatorial mount. 2》 a surveying instrument for measuring vertical and horizontal angles.… …
7History of the telescope — The earliest known working telescopes appeared in 1608 and are credited to Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen, spectacle makers in Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar. The design of these early refracting telescopes consisted of a convex… …
8Dobsonian telescope — A Dobsonian telescope on display at Stellafane in the early 1980s A Dobsonian telescope is an alt azimuth mounted newtonian telescope design popularized by the amateur astronomer John Dobson starting in the 1960s. Dobson s telescopes featured a… …
9List of telescope types — There are three main types of optical telescopes and these are divided into subgroups. They all have their different advantages and disadvantages and they are used in different areas of astronomy.Refractors (Dioptrics) * Non achromatic *… …
10Newtonian telescope — The Newtonian telescope is a type of reflecting telescope invented by the British scientist Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), using a concave primary mirror and a flat diagonal secondary mirror. Newton’s first reflecting telescope was completed in… …
