Mittagsfernrohr
English translation: Meridian telescope
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| 21:48 Oct 12, 2005 |
| German to English translations [PRO] Science - Astronomy & Space / Observatories | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Brie Vernier Germany Local time: 06:20 | ||||||
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meridian (circle) telescope Explanation: the result was the 19th century's most accurate method of measuring star positions. ... Olcott Meridian Circle Telescope in Dudley Observatory in Albany, ... www.dudleyobservatory.org/Artifacts/artifacts_meridian.htm - 11k |
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37 mins confidence:
Meridian telescope Explanation: says this bilingual website -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs 46 mins (2005-10-13 00:34:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- that particular website is no shining example of translation at work, but there are a lot of other Googles for "meridian telescope" (both capitalized and not) Reference: http://www.molau.de/remplin/rempline.html |
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