equatorial telescope

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equatorial telescope [‚e·kwə′tȯr·ē·əl ′tel·ə‚skōp]

(engineering)

An astronomical telescope that revolves about an axis parallel to the earth's axis and automatically keeps a star on which it has been fixed in its field of view.

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