Terms
Terms

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Here are some astronomical terms that you'll find used on this website, as well as in astronomical magazines and telescope instruction manuals.

Click on any of the terms below for a definition . . .

   Altazimuth Mount
   Aperture
   Astronomical Binoculars
   Averted Vision
   Compound Telescope
   Collimation
   Dawe's Limit
   Declination
   Diffraction-Limited
   Dobsonian Telescope
   Equatorial Mount
   Eyepiece
   Focal Length
   Focal Ratio
   German Equatorial Mount
   Highest Useful Magnification
   Limiting Magnitude
   Magnification
   Magnitude
   Maksutov-Cassegrain
   Newtonian Reflector
   Refractor
   Resolution
   Right Ascension
   Seeing
   Setting Circles
   Star-Hopping
   Transparency



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