The micrometer works at the end of the Cooke equatorial telescope. It includes: a micrometric box, equipped with fixed wires and mobile wire, and a cylindrical sleeve inside which a tube runs, driven by the drum, at the two ends of which the Wollaston prism and a variable diaphragm are fixed. The sleeve within which the prism-holder tube moves is equipped with a junction whose bases can slide on each other in friction, so that the micrometric box and, therefore, the wire itself, can assume any orientation.