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Instrument for observing and taking pictures of the circle of light around the sun, consisting of a telescope fitted with lenses, filters, and diaphragms that simulate an eclipse;

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  • By blocking out the light from Alcor with a device called a coronagraph, the study team confirmed that, unknown for centuries, Alcor b indeed orbits the larger star.
  • Historically, researchers have studied the corona during eclipses, when the moon blocks out the disk and reveals the corona, or by using an instrument called a...
  • HR 8799, about 130 light years away (one light-year is about 5.9 trillion miles), was examined in Hubble "coronagraph" images in 1998.
  • He invented the polariscope, and produced the first solar coronagraph.
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