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Big telescope mounts in the 19-th century


Nik271

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Just saw this very informative youtube video of a talk on the 1824 Fraunhofer refractor mount. We seem to take the german equatorial mount as 'obvious' nowadays. It took quite  a lot of trial and error to find the right solution.

 

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