Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument, first suggested and tried by Huggins for photographing the sun's corona during an eclipse, or in full sunlight, if possible.
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- noun astronomy A
telescope , fitted with an attachment that blocks out direct rays from the sun, used to study and photograph thecorona of thesun - noun astronomy The
attachment used in such a telescope
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Examples
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Once the twinkle was removed, the light from the star itself was blocked using the team's coronograph, an instrument that selectively masks out the star.
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Once the twinkle was removed, the light from the star itself was blocked using the team's coronograph, an instrument that selectively masks out the star.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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In the second case, support the instrumentation for TMT and GMT for a GPI-like project; put a well-corrected subaperture/vector vortex coronograph system on Keck, etc.
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Sounds like a near-IR SNAP with a coronograph - a near-IR wide field "New Worlds Observer"?
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Once the twinkle was removed, the light from the star itself was blocked using the team's coronograph, an instrument that selectively masks out the star.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Once the twinkle was removed, the light from the star itself was blocked using the team's coronograph, an instrument that selectively masks out the star.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Once the twinkle was removed, the light from the star itself was blocked using the team's coronograph, an instrument that selectively masks out the star.
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Sounds like a near-IR SNAP with a coronograph - a near-IR wide field "New Worlds Observer"?
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Once the twinkle was removed, the light from the star itself was blocked using the team's coronograph, an instrument that selectively masks out the star.
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Hubble's advanced camera for surveys was equipped with a coronograph, a disk-shaped device that blocks all of a star's brightest light.
ruzuzu commented on the word coronograph
See coronagraph.
September 2, 2010