[time-nuts] Sidereal time
Bruce Griffiths
bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz
Fri Jan 15 20:47:24 UTC 2010
J. Forster wrote:
> The two big ones I remember are:
>
> A Boller& Chivens 24" about 1 degree
>
Only with a camera, not with an eyepiece.
Eyepiece field of view is something like 20 arc minutes with a 2" eyepiece.
> A 60" about 15 arc-minutes
> The MMT is about 1 degree, I think.
>
>
No one uses an eyepiece with the MMT (something of a misnomer now that
it uses a single primary mirror).
The quoted FOV is for a camera only
> -John
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Bruce
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