Sternfinder
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Star Finder (Celestial Globe)
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Indicateur d’étoiles
Bedienungsanleitung
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Operating Instructions
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Mode d’emploi
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calculated according to Item 4.1.5
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4.2.3 Searching for the observed Stellar Body on the Star Globe
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4.3 Searching for a Star specified by Name
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in the starry Sky
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5. Adjustment
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6. Handling and Maintenance
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1. A
PPLICATION
The star map is the simplest means for seeking and determining stars or
constellations. Each star map is, however, valid for a certain geographic
latitude or, depending on the degree of accuracy required, for a smaller or
wider range of geographic latitudes only.
The star finder is an instrument applicable in every geographic latitude – both
in northern and southern hemisphere of our earth. Apart from representing the
astronomic coordinate systems in a three-dimensional and illustrative manner it
also shows their mathematical correlations for any observational place on
earth. Its star detector allows both to find out the name of an unknown star
observed and to pre-set a measuring instrument (e.g. sextant, compass or
theodolite) for searching for a stellar body.
Besides this, a three-dimensional illustration of the daily circulation of the fixed
stars visible in any geographic latitude, the differences in the orbit of the sun
during the four seasons, the times of rising and setting of the constellations
shown on the star globe, times and heights of culmination as well as other
important data of the orbits of stellar bodies, is possible.