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How to use altazimuth in a sentence

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Even with this disadvantage, the altazimuth mounting will be the primary mounting for very large telescopes to be constructed in the future.
Scopes with altazimuth mounts are easy to set up and use, and require no special expertise to use properly.
While the altitude axis of an altazimuth mount may bend, the bending is constant and can be compensated by realignment of the tube or optics.
The Dobsonian design is the most popular type of altazimuth mounting used on astronomical telescopes.
All are fully-steerable altazimuth telescopes capable of pointing and tracking over zenith angles from 1 to 60 degrees.
This is an altazimuth theodolite of an improved pattern now used on the Ordnance Survey.
Examples from Classical Literature
The observations with the altazimuth are rather more complicated than those with the transit circle.
On his return home he settled at Westbury, where he erected an altazimuth by Troughton, with a two-and-a-half-foot circle.
This pillar is the support of Airy's altazimuth, and very nearly marks the place where Flamsteed set up his original sextant.
For many years the instruments in regular use were two only, the transit circle and the altazimuth.
The third day he had a full day's work on the calculations, followed by a night duty with the altazimuth.
The altazimuth can thus determine the altitude and azimuth of objects, hence the name.
We saw that the altazimuth employed at Upsala had no lenses.
A most important step taken by Airy was the construction of an altazimuth.
The simple Newtonian reflector optical design, red-dot finderscope, and altazimuth mount on full-height stainless-steel tripod make it easy to navigate the night sky.
The first was that the mount was an altazimuth, which meant it was only suitable for short exposures of bright objects such as the Moon and planets.
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