[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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