Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 447
QUATORIAL COUDE. 426 a 557. The Equatorial Coude. —A great telescope mounted inthe usual manner is very unwieldy, and various arrangementshave been devised for relieving the difficulties. In the Equa-torial Coude, or Elbowed Equatorial, now in use at Parisand in several other observatories, the… … Fig. 159. —The Equatorial Coude. tion, under shelter, looking down through the polar axis, whichis hollow and forms part of the telescope tube. The instru-ment is of course much more expensive than the usual form;but the costly revolving dome is dispensed with. There is a considerable loss of light…
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