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474 Index<br />

potential energy, 177<br />

power gain, 354<br />

precession of the equinoxes, 141<br />

proportional counter, 386<br />

proton, 220<br />

Ptolemy, 11, 133, 209<br />

Purkinje effect, 285<br />

Pythagoras, 10<br />

quadrature, 154<br />

quanta, 283<br />

quantization of angular momentum, 222<br />

quantum efficiency, 284<br />

radar, 372<br />

radial velocity, 229<br />

radiant, 18<br />

Ramsden eyepiece, 278<br />

Rayleigh scattering, 28<br />

Rayleigh’s criterion, 248<br />

Rayleigh’s law, 314<br />

Rayleigh–Jeans approximation, 217<br />

reciprocal linear dispersion, 325<br />

reciprocity failure, 289<br />

reflector, 238<br />

refractive power, 115, 250<br />

refractor, 238<br />

relative motion, 229<br />

rendezvous problem, 199<br />

resolving power, 16, 245, 444<br />

retrograde motion, 150, 158<br />

right ascension, (α), 24, 71<br />

Ritchey–Chrétian telescope, 261<br />

Ritchie, 211<br />

Ritter, 209<br />

Roemer, 135<br />

Schmidt telescope, 339<br />

scintillation noise, 29<br />

secular terms, 188<br />

seeing, 315<br />

seeing disc, 317<br />

selenocentric system, 59<br />

semi-diameter, 123<br />

semi-major axis, 167, 186<br />

semi-minor axis, 167<br />

sextant, 345<br />

shape factor, 253<br />

shot noise, 297<br />

side-lobe, 353<br />

sidereal, 5<br />

day, 88, 96<br />

period, 154<br />

year, 147<br />

siderostat, 347<br />

signal-to-noise ratio, 16<br />

sine formula, 52<br />

skeleton radio telescope, 367<br />

small circle, 45<br />

solar<br />

parallax, 122<br />

rotation period, 429<br />

sailing, 183<br />

solid<br />

angle, 214<br />

state detector, 14<br />

solstice<br />

summer, 73, 103<br />

winter, 73, 103<br />

spark chamber, 388<br />

spatial resolution, 286<br />

special perturbations, 189<br />

specific intensity, 216<br />

speckle interferometry, 338<br />

spectral resolving power, 325<br />

spectral response, 283<br />

spectral sensitivity, 286<br />

spectrum, 209<br />

speed, 286<br />

sphere of influence, 203<br />

spherical<br />

angle, 46<br />

astronomy, 45<br />

triangle, 46<br />

spring, 103<br />

St<strong>and</strong>ard Time, 97<br />

st<strong>and</strong>ard time zone, 97<br />

Stark effect, 230<br />

station error, 48<br />

stationary point, 150, 159<br />

Stefan’s constant, 218<br />

Stefan–Boltzmann law, 217<br />

stellar<br />

luminosity, 218<br />

parallax, 126<br />

steradian, 214<br />

Stonehenge, 76<br />

Strehl index, 318<br />

sub-solar point, 412<br />

summer, 103

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