Instruments have been invented by Alvan Clark and Sir Howard Grubb for measuring with the spider-line micrometer angles which are larger than the field of view of the eyepiece.
A faint light being thrown on the outside of the silvered plate, there appear bright lines in the field of view.
Thus, if the star's image is kept in bisection by the wire, both star and wire will appear at rest in the field of view.
Then if the prism P4 is cemented to P3, a sharp image of such lines of the solar spectrograph as are visible in the field of view will be seen in the eyepiece.
In order that a large part of the field of view may be in focus at once, it is desirable that the locus of the focused spectrum should be nearly perpendicular to the line of vision.
