photoheliograph
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photoheliograph
[¦fōd·ō′hē·lē·ə‚graf] (optics)
A refracting telescope specially designed to photograph the sun's disk.
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In 1929 the
photoheliograph was removed and placed on a mount in the NW dome, where it sill is.
Heliographical positions and areas of sun-spots observed with the Kew
photoheliograph during the years 1862 and 1863.
So impressed was the Royal Astronomical Society that it enlisted De la Rue in the construction of a specialized telescopic camera (a "
photoheliograph") to monitor sunspots and photograph eclipses.
A partial eclipse of the Sun on April 17 photographed from Greenwich with the Thompson
Photoheliograph when 15 exposures were made.
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