Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One skilled in using the telescope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who uses a telescope.
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- noun One who uses a
telescope .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The great heat which prevailed during parts of the summer of 1876 was held by many to be connected in some way with a comet which some very unskilful telescopist constructed in his imagination out of the glare of
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The well-known telescopist Goldschmidt (who commenced astronomical observation at the age of forty-eight, in 1850) added fourteen asteroids to the solar system, not to speak of important discoveries of nebulæ and variable stars, by means of a telescope only five feet in focal length, mounted on a movable tripod stand.
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This information is very valuable to the telescopist.
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Passing over the asteroids, which are not very interesting objects to the amateur telescopist, we come to Jupiter, the giant of the solar system, surpassing our Earth more than 1400 times in volume, and overweighing all the planets taken together twice over.
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The telescopist should not be deterred from observation by the presence of fog or haze, since with a hazy sky definition is often singularly good.
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The regular observer will of course make use of the 'Nautical Almanac'; but 'Dietrichsen and Hannay's Almanac' will serve every purpose of the amateur telescopist.
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But a simple arrangement of belted wheels in place of the toothed wheels _a_ and _c_ might very readily be prepared by the ingenious amateur telescopist; and
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a useful and reliable guide to the amateur telescopist.
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