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Collimation

noun
1.
The accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope.





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"Collimation" Quotes from Famous Books



... "The collimation plate they correct with the micrometer, so that they consider some position-reading of the micrometer-head the zero point, and correct that for the error, which they determine by reflection in a trough of mercury. With this instrument they observe ...
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell


Words linked to "Collimation" :   readjustment, registration, collimate, adjustment


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