Italian: volta celesteEnglish translation: celestial vault 
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Science - Astronomy & Space / astronomy | | Italian term or phrase: volta celeste | | Sounds like its part of a large telescope structure. Its where the mechanisms and machinery are housed. |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseGrey Drane: 12:13pm Apr 29, 2003: Are you sure it's referring to part of the telescope? Could you provide more context? -
Domenica Grangiotti: 12:57pm Apr 29, 2003: Could it be a planetarium? -
Alexander Chisholm (asker): 1:21pm Apr 29, 2003: more - it a figure legend referring to a large telescope construction, and the vault celeste is where the mechanism etc is housed.
Alexander Chisholm (asker): 1:47pm Apr 29, 2003: more more - From looking at the figure it appears to be the dome like structure of the observatory.
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| | enclosure | Explanation:
... or dome.
See reference link.
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Note added at 2003-04-29 15:12:54 (GMT)
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And FWIW, I would say a simple \"sky\" is more commonly used to refer to the \"vault of heaven\" when describing what a telescope can see. \"Vault of heaven\" tends to used in more poetic contexts (or in transaltions from Italian...). |
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Grey Drane
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Explanation:
as an alternative to vault of heaven / heavens /sky.
I've never heard of it used as part of a telescope. Do you have any more information?
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| enclosure
Explanation:
... or dome.
See reference link.
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Note added at 2003-04-29 15:12:54 (GMT)
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And FWIW, I would say a simple \"sky\" is more commonly used to refer to the \"vault of heaven\" when describing what a telescope can see. \"Vault of heaven\" tends to used in more poetic contexts (or in transaltions from Italian...).
Reference: http://www.eso.org/projects/vlt/unit-tel/enclosure.html
| Grey Drane
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| Note from asker to answerer| Many thanks for the link, I was able to get a lot of good info there. |
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