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EXPERIMENTS have recently been conducted by the Telecommunications Research Establishment at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, to investigate the automatic guiding of an astronomical telescope on a star. The work was done on the 13-in. astrographic refractor and the degree of success achieved was as follows.
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UTTLEY, A., JONES, S. & MANNS, L. Photo-electric Star-following Telescopes. Nature 162, 144 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162144a0
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