Photoheliograph

Word PHOTOHELIOGRAPH
Character 15
Hyphenation pho to he li o graph
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Photoheliograph"

What do we mean by photoheliograph?

A telescope equipped to photograph the sun. noun

A photographic telescope designed for making photo-graphs of the sun, particularly at a transit of Venus or at a solar eclipse. There are several forms of the instrument, differing widely in construction. noun

A modified kind of telescope adapted to taking photographs of the sun. noun

A heliograph, with a camera attached, used to photograph the Sun noun

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The word "photoheliograph" in example sentences

The resulting "photoheliograph" may be described as ❋ Unknown (1874)

With the telescope, micrometer, heliostat, and spectroscope came desire for more complex instruments, resulting in the invention of the photoheliograph, invoking the aid of photography to make permanent the results of these exciting researches. ❋ Various (N/A)

A four-inch equatorial stands on a half round bastion, at the west end of the bridge, and a photoheliograph at the east end of the old wall, over the barracks of the gendarmes. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Photographs of the sun have been taken with the photoheliograph on 182 days. ❋ Airy, George Biddell, Sir (1896)

Huggins studied the chemistry of the stars by means of the spectroscope, and when Warren De la Rue set up a photoheliograph at ❋ George Forbes (1892)

But astronomical photography really owes its beginning to De la Rue, who used the collodion process for the moon in 1853, and constructed the Kew photoheliograph in 1857, from which date these instruments have been multiplied, and have given us an accurate record of the sun's surface. ❋ George Forbes (1892)

It was one of the heaviest of the lot, containing the cast-iron pier on which the photoheliograph was to be mounted. ❋ Simon Newcomb (1872)

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