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  2. List of astronomical catalogues - Wikipedia

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    LAMOST — Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (Guo Shoujing Telescope) Latham — (for example: Latham 1 at 13:10:50 / +30°28'36" in Coma Berenices) Latysev — (open star clusters) Lau — H.E. Lau (double stars) LBN — Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae; Lbz — P. Labitzke (double stars) LDN — Lynds' Catalogue of ...

  3. Astroscan - Wikipedia

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    When Edmund Scientific introduced the telescope in 1976 they called it "The Edmund Wide-Field Telescope" with a Part Number "2001" [5] Edmund had a public contest which ran until November 15, 1976, to come up with a name. [6] The winning name was "Astroscan 2001". The "2001" part of the name was dropped over time.

  4. List of the United States Army fire control and sighting ...

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    This is a list of United States Army fire control, and sighting material by supply catalog designation, or Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group "F".The United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalog used an alpha-numeric nomenclature system from about the mid-1920s to about 1958.

  5. Edmund Scientific Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Edmund Scientific Corporation, based in Barrington, New Jersey, was founded in 1942 as a retailer of surplus optical parts like lenses.It later branched out into complete systems like telescopes and microscopes, and in the 1960s, a wide variety of science toys and kits.

  6. List of space telescopes - Wikipedia

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    Positioning an optical telescope in space eliminates the distortions and limitations that hamper that ground-based optical telescopes (see Astronomical seeing), providing higher resolution images. Optical telescopes are used to look at planets , stars , galaxies , planetary nebulae and protoplanetary disks , amongst many other things.

  7. Amateur telescope making - Wikipedia

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    Ever since Galileo Galilei adapted a Dutch invention for astronomical use, astronomical telescope making has been an evolving discipline. Many astronomers after the time of Galileo built their own telescopes out of necessity, but the advent of amateurs in the field building telescopes for their own enjoyment and education seems to have come into prominence in the 20th century.

  8. MDM Observatory - Wikipedia

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    The 1.3-meter McGraw-Hill Telescope, with a 1.27-meter clear aperture, is an aluminum-coated Cer-Vit (low thermal expansion glass) telescope. Its usable foci include f/7.5 and f/13.5. [ 6 ] The telescope was originally installed at Stinchfield Woods, Michigan in 1969, and moved in 1975 to MDM.

  9. Stellarium (software) - Wikipedia

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    In 2006, Stellarium 0.7.1 won a gold award in the Education category of the Les Trophées du Libre free software competition. [4]A modified version of Stellarium has been used by the MeerKAT project as a virtual sky display showing where the antennae of the radio telescope are pointed.