💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Celatone"
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| Word | Definition |
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| coelostatnoun | (astronomy) A device that rotates a telescope so as to keep its orientation constant with relation to the stars. |
| keplerian telescopenoun | (astronomy) An improvement on the Galilean telescope, having a convex lens as the eyepiece instead of Galileo's concave one. |
| galilean satellitesnoun | (astronomy) The four Galilean moons of Jupiter. |
| coronographnoun | (astronomy) A telescope, fitted with an attachment that blocks out direct rays from the sun, used to study and photograph the corona of the sun. |
| astrolabenoun | An astronomical and navigational instrument for gauging the altitude of the Sun and stars. |
| equatorialnoun | (astronomy) A kind of telescope mounted so as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the Earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known. |
| meteoroscopenoun | (astronomy, obsolete) An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction of the apparent path of a shooting star. |
| nocturlabenoun | (historical) An instrument for navigation, or telling the time, at night, by measuring the position of stars relative to the pole star |
| transit instrumentnoun | (astronomy) An astronomical telescope mounted in the meridian and turning on a fixed east-and-west axis. |
| cosmolabenoun | An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies. |
| coronagraphnoun | (astronomy) A telescope that has an attachment which blocks out the direct light from the sun or other star, allowing examination of the corona and the detection of exoplanets. |
| cosmospherenoun | An apparatus for showing the position of the Earth with respect to the fixed stars, consisting of a hollow glass globe marked with the stars and constellations and containing a terrestrial globe. |
| tellurionnoun | (astronomy, historical) An instrument used to show how the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun cause day and night and the seasons. |
| lunariumnoun | A mechanical model illustrating the motion of the Moon around the Earth. |
| gnomonnoun | An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial. |
| collimatornoun | (physics) An optical device that generates a parallel beam of light. Often used to compensate for laser beam divergence. |
| retenoun | (anatomy) A network of blood vessels or nerves. |
| lensatic | Being or relating to a form of compass with a lens (for alignment with landmarks) and a dial instead of a needle. |
| cometariumnoun | (astronomy) An instrument intended to represent the revolution of a comet around the Sun. |
| optigraphnoun | A telescope with a diagonal eyepiece, suspended vertically in gimbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes by means of an attached pencil. |
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