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coronagraph

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coronagraph (plural coronagraphs)

(astronomy) A telescope that has an attachment which blocks out the direct light from the sun or other star, allowing examination of the corona and the detection of exoplanets

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As an orange dwarf, with a mass just under that of the Sun, it's also not tremendously bright, which means it's well suited for observation with a coronagraph. Source: Internet

Using a coronagraph on the Subaru telescope in Hawaii in 2005, astronomers were able to further constrain the size of a planet orbiting Vega to no more than 5–10 times the mass of Jupiter. Source: Internet

Local observations A picture of the solar corona taken with the LASCO C1 coronagraph. Source: Internet

In this movie, the inner coronagraph (designated C2) is combined with the outer coronagraph (C3). Source: Internet

The corona is visible to the SOHO/LASCO coronagraph instruments, which block the bright disk of the Sun so the significantly fainter corona can be seen. Source: Internet

To obtain the images, the research team ran a special three-day campaign wherein the instrument took more frequent and longer-exposure images than it usually does, allowing more time for light from faint sources to be detected by the coronagraph. Source: Internet

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