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Setting circles

Setting circles are used on telescopes equipped with an equatorial mount to find celestial objects by their equatorial coordinates, often used in star charts and ephemerides.

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Digital setting circles

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Setting circles

Nodes32
Edges31
Triples40
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.0625
Components1

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Setting circles

Top relations

related to Digital setting circles · 13
Setting circles → David, Digital, DIY, DSC, GOTO, Guerra, In, Jearl Walker, John, One, PUSH TO, Scientific American, They
related to Description · 10
Setting circles → DEC, Locating, Northern Hemisphere, RA, Setting, Since, Sometimes, Southern, The DEC, The RA
related to Portable telescopes · 8
Setting circles → After, In, Polar, Polaris, Setting Right Ascension, Sidereal Time, Sigma Octantis, The
related to External links · 5
Setting circles → Archived, OpticsSky, Telescope, Telescopes, Wayback Machine
related to Research telescopes · 4
Setting circles → Historically, In, Making, Setting

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Important terminology

setting circles telescope mount celestial telescopes right ascension alignment star declination ra northern hemisphere southern polar used coordinates two object

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Setting circlesrelated to DescriptionSetting0.60section
Setting circlesrelated to DescriptionRA0.60section
Setting circlesrelated to DescriptionDEC0.60section
Setting circlesrelated to DescriptionThe RA0.60section
Setting circlesrelated to DescriptionThe DEC0.60section
Setting circlesrelated to DescriptionSince0.60section
Setting circlesrelated to DescriptionLocating0.60section
Setting circlesrelated to DescriptionSometimes0.60section
Setting circlesrelated to DescriptionNorthern Hemisphere0.60section
Setting circlesrelated to DescriptionSouthern0.60section
Setting circlesrelated to Digital setting circlesDigital0.60section
Setting circlesrelated to Digital setting circlesDSC0.60section

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