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Constellations are an important part of many of many cultures. Astronomers have adopted the Greek constellations to provide a regional map into which to located objects. Before the first telescope astronomers have been classified and catalogued objects, so that there know are in access of 200 such catalogues. These knowing, which catalogue appropriate to the task at hand is an important tool in observational astronomy.
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GOTO telescopes have powered mounts and either a customer built interface or computer control that allows the users to rapidly move between targets. Typically the users have to point the telescope to three guide stars to set it up.
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Gallaway, M. (2016). Catalogues and Constellations. In: An Introduction to Observational Astrophysics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23377-2_6
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