The sophisticated guide telescope stabilizes instrument pointing in the third dimension.
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Additional attitude information is provided by the star tracker and the SECCHI Guide Telescope.
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Attached to the main telescope are two guide telescopes : an 18 cm and an 8 cm refractor.
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The tube ( beneath the stairs ) was parallel to the reflecting light from any unobscured part of the sky through both a photographic and a visual guide telescope, both of the same focal length, 600 inches.
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Its guiding telescopes are used mostly to watch stars and planets-e . g . a Pluto-hunt every spring, for which the guider is barely big enough to allow the human eye to see it under good seeing conditions.
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SIM was to be composed of one science interferometer ( 50 cm collectors, 6 m separation [ baseline ] ), a guide interferometer ( 30 cm collectors, 4.2 m baseline ), and a guide telescope ( 30 cm aperture ).