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Index 473<br />

solar time, 92<br />

sun, 92<br />

Melvill, 209<br />

meridian, 61<br />

circle, 65, 342<br />

MERLIN, 366<br />

meteor, 5, 18<br />

meteorite, 19<br />

meteorology, 4<br />

Michelson stellar interferometer, 333, 448<br />

microchannel plate, 387<br />

microdensitometer, 328<br />

microphotometer, 288<br />

midnight Sun, 103<br />

Millikan, 220<br />

minor axis, 167<br />

modulation collimator, 383<br />

Moon’s sidereal path, 7<br />

multiple mirror telescope, 331<br />

nadir, 59<br />

nautical mile, 50<br />

Neil Armstrong, 149<br />

Newton’s laws of motion, 170<br />

noise, 16<br />

noise equivalent power, 393<br />

noon-marker, 403<br />

north<br />

celestial pole, 59<br />

polar distance, 62<br />

North Polar Sequence, 307<br />

Norton’s Star Atlas, 33, 35<br />

nova, 7<br />

nutation, 133, 145<br />

objective<br />

photographic, 253<br />

photovisual, 253<br />

prism, 327<br />

visual, 253<br />

obliquity of the ecliptic, 74<br />

opacity, 288<br />

opposition, 154<br />

optical<br />

depth, 312<br />

window, 283<br />

parabolic dish, 360<br />

parallactic<br />

angle, 67, 120<br />

ellipse, 126<br />

shift, 67<br />

parallel of latitude, 49<br />

parasitic antenna, 358<br />

paraxial ray, 253<br />

parsec, 130<br />

partial polarization, 234<br />

Paschen series, 224<br />

perigee, 93, 180<br />

perihelion, 168, 178<br />

period of revolution, 168<br />

periodic terms, 188<br />

personal equation, 13<br />

Petzval surface, 256<br />

Pfund series, 224<br />

phase angle, 154<br />

phase-switching, 364<br />

phased array, 359<br />

Philolaus, 10<br />

photocathode, 294<br />

photoelectric effect, 14<br />

photoelectrons, 293<br />

photographic<br />

plate, 14<br />

system, 307<br />

photomultiplier, 294<br />

photon, 21, 283<br />

energy, 381<br />

shot noise, 21, 242<br />

photovisual system, 307<br />

planet, 6<br />

planetary<br />

aberration, 140<br />

distances, 156<br />

phase, 162<br />

planetocentric system, 59<br />

planisphere, 35<br />

plate scale, 241<br />

Pogson’s equation, 219<br />

point spread function, 16, 322<br />

polar<br />

axis, 91, 374<br />

night, 103<br />

Polaris, 59<br />

polarization, 23, 30, 263, 371<br />

degree of, 234<br />

ellipse, 232<br />

pole, 45<br />

star, 59<br />

position circle, 413

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