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Index
Adobe Acrobat: xiii, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 57,
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Airy disc: 17
Aitken, Robert: 22, 23, 27
alt-azimuth mount: 1, 2
aperture: x, 2, 3, 11, 14
averted vision: 13
Baize, Paul: 24
BARFS (big and really faint stuff): 44
binary stars: x, xiii, 23, 26, 40, 41
See also double stars
binary system: see binary stars
Burnham, Sherburne W: 23, 24
Chester, Geoff: 46
Coe, Steve: 46, 47
collimation: 4
Couteau, Paul: 4, 24
Crayon, A. J.: xiv, 47
Dawes limit: 3 (footnote), 4
declination: ix, x, xiii, 3, 7, 8 (footnote), 9, 13, 19,
20
declination axis: 7
deep sky objects: x, xiii, xiv, 1, 2, 33, 34, 35, 37,
40, 43, 44, 56
difficulty levels: xiv, 44, 55, 56, 69
double stars: x, xiii, xiv, 1, 2, 4, 7, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 21 (footnote), 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28,
29, 30, 31, 33, 37, 40, 44, 47, 55, 56, 61
equatorial mount: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7
European Space Agency (ESA): 39, 46
field of view: 8, 19, 20, 54
filters: 12, 13
galaxies: x, xiii, 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 33, 34, 37, 38,
41, 44, 46, 61
globular clusters: x, xii, xiv, 1, 13, 34, 37, 38, 39,
40, 61
Greene, Eric: 46
Heintz, Wulff: 26
Herschel, John: 21 (footnote), 26, 29, 30
Herschel, William: 26, 27
Herschel number: 37
Hertzsprung, Ejnar: 24, 26
Jonckheere, Robert: 27
Kaler, Dr. James B.: 45, 46
light grasp: 3, 4
luminosity: 36, 40, 41
magnification: 2, 3, 9, 13, 14, 21
magnitude: x, 3, 12, 21, 21 (footnote), 22, 23, 30,
32, 33, 34, 40, 41, 43, 44, 47
Morgan-Keenan-Kellman (spectral classes): 21, 40
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA): 47
objective mask: 17, 18 (illustration), 21
observatory: 5, 11, 13, 21
observing forms: 54, 67
occultation binaries: 19
open clusters: ix, x, xiii, 1, 13, 34, 36, 37, 38, 40,
46, 61
optical double: 18
planetary nebula: x, xiii, 33, 34, 37, 38, 40, 56, 61
polar alignment: 2, 8, 9
polar axis: 7, 8, 9 (footnote)
position angle: 19, 31
rating: 44
Rayleigh formula: 3
Rayleigh limit: 3 (footnote), 4
resolution: 3, 4
resolving power: see resolution
right ascension: ix, xiii, 3, 7, 20
Rossiter, Richard A.: 28
Saguaro Astronomy Club: 47, 54
Sawyer, Helen: 37
scale models: xii, 39, 40, 41
seeing: xiv, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 41, 44
separation: 19, 20, 31, 40
setting circles: 7, 8, 9
Shapley, Harlow: 37
sketch book: 13
sky album: 47, 54, 55, 67
Software Bisque: 9, 13, 45
South, James: 26, 29
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