photoheliograph

pho·to·he·li·o·graph

(fō′tō-hē′lē-ə-grăf′)

A telescope equipped to photograph the sun.

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The plates were mounted in De La Rue's 'photoheliograph', a telescope that he had specially designed for photographing the Sun.

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In 1910 the photoheliograph was mounted on the side of the Astrographic.

The astrographic telescope of the royal observatory, Cape

Numerous insets detail such subjects as Finding Longitude, The Photoheliograph, and short biographies of the primary scientists involved.

Transit of Venus

As for de la Rue, Stewart, and Loewy, their contributions with the photoheliograph at Kew were significant.

A thermodynamic history of the solar constitution--I: the journey to a gaseous sun