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470 Index<br />

black body radiation, 216<br />

blink microscope, 306<br />

blooming, 257<br />

Bohr, atomic theory, 221<br />

bolometric<br />

correction, 310<br />

magnitude scale, 310<br />

Bouger’s law, 312<br />

Brackett series, 224<br />

Bradley, 133<br />

Bragg spectrometer, 385<br />

Brahé, 152, 166<br />

brightness, 242<br />

apparent, 219, 241<br />

surface, 216<br />

broadside array, 358<br />

Bunsen, 212<br />

Callanish, 76<br />

canal rays, 220<br />

cardinal points, 60<br />

cathode rays, 220<br />

CCD, 14<br />

celestial equator, 24, 61<br />

celestial mechanics, 170<br />

characteristic curve, 288<br />

chief ray, 272<br />

Christiansen interferometer, 359<br />

Christmas Tree array, 359<br />

circle of least confusion, 251<br />

circular polarization, 232<br />

circumpolar, 5<br />

stars, 64<br />

Clarke belt, 195, 426<br />

Clerk Maxwell, 231<br />

co-latitude, 48<br />

COAST, 335<br />

coelostat, 347<br />

collinear array, 358<br />

colour index, 309<br />

comet, 7<br />

Comet Shoemaker–Levy, 192<br />

Comte, 212<br />

conjunction, 154<br />

constant of aberration, 137<br />

continuous spectrum, 212<br />

Copernicus, 151<br />

coronagraph, 348<br />

cosine formula, 51<br />

analogue, 52<br />

cosmic ray physics, 19<br />

cosmologies, 3<br />

COSMOS scanning system, 306<br />

coudé telescope, 377<br />

culminate, 5<br />

dark<br />

background, 298<br />

count, 298<br />

signal, 298<br />

dark-adaptation, 285<br />

Dawes’ empirical criterion, 275<br />

dead reckoning position, 413<br />

declination (δ), 24, 62<br />

axis, 374<br />

geocentric, 67<br />

parallel of, 62<br />

deferent, 150<br />

density of photographic plate, 288<br />

departure, 49<br />

descending node, 79, 80, 185<br />

diaphragm (field stop), 244<br />

diffraction<br />

grating, 324, 325, 385, 446<br />

image, 318<br />

pattern, 245, 317, 385, 445<br />

direct motion, 150<br />

direction-cosines, 175<br />

dispersing element, 324<br />

dispersion, 250<br />

diurnal movement, 7<br />

Doll<strong>and</strong>, 239, 251<br />

Doppler, 227<br />

Doppler shift, 228<br />

dynamic range, 288<br />

dynamical mean sun, 93<br />

Dynamical Time, 32<br />

dynode, 294<br />

Earth’s figure, 193<br />

Eberhard effect, 290<br />

eccentricity, 168, 186<br />

eccentricity of Earth’s orbit, 432<br />

ecliptic, 7, 25, 72<br />

effective area, 355<br />

effective temperature, 216, 356<br />

electromagnetic radiation, 19<br />

electron, 220<br />

electron volt, 223<br />

elliptical flat, 259

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