guiding telescope

guiding telescope
noun
: a visual telescope mounted rigidly parallel to a photographic telescope and used by an observer to supplement the clock motion in maintaining immovable the image of a heavenly body on the photographic plate

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guiding telescope,
a telescope attached to a phototelescope that allows a person to observe the star being photographed and so regulate the position of the phototelescope.

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