Image: Chabot's meridian transit telescope
Description: Chabot's meridian transit telescope Type - Transit telescope Maker - Fauth & Co., 1885 Aperture – 4 inches Focal Length – Mount – Double Pier Transit Usage Intent – popular and educational use / time determination Chabot Space and Science Center's meridian transit telescope, built by Fauth, 1885. Note the observer's chair between the piers, and the narrow opening in the wall and roof for access to the sky. Because the telescope observes only in the meridian, no rotating dome is necessary.
Title: Chabot's meridian transit telescope
Credit: Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Jacopo Werther.
Author: Myowncompass at English Wikipedia
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