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title: "Equatorial room"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_room"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T09:47:23.513200+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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An equatorial room, in astronomical observatories, is the room which contains an equatorial mounted telescope. It is usually referred to in observatory buildings that contain more than one type of instrument: for example buildings with an "equatorial room" containing an equatorial telescope and a "transit room" containing a transit telescope. Equatorial rooms tend to be large circular rooms to accommodate all the range of motion of a long telescope on an equatorial mount and are usually topped with a dome to keep out the weather.
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In some cases an observatory would move to a new location, or the equatorial telescope itself would be removed. The space would then be converted, for example, into use as a classroom or library. These peculiar rooms can sometimes be found in buildings at old colleges and towns, with their former use long forgotten.
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== References ==
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Introduction To Orwell Park Observatory" by James Appleton
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== Further reading ==
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George Frederick Chambers (1890), A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy: Instruments and practical astronomy, Clarendon Press, p. 198
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Sir Norman Lockyer (1886), "Detail of the Structure of the Observatory", Nature, XXXIII, Macmillan Journals Limited: 57 |