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    A coronagraph is a telescopic attachment designed to block out the direct light from a star or other bright object so that nearby objects – which otherwise...
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  • Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory satellite (SOHO) consists of three solar coronagraphs with nested fields...
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    A vortex coronagraph is a type of optical instrument for telescopes that blocks out the glare of bright objects (like stars) so that smaller objects near...
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    the use of the NRO telescopes. The Roman baseline design includes a coronagraph to enable the direct imaging of exoplanets. Several implementations of...
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    stars than conventional Lyot type coronagraph designs. For example, at a distance of 100 pc, the PIAA coronagraph on SCExAO would be able to image from...
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    LUVOIR would be equipped with an internal coronagraph instrument, called ECLIPS for Extreme Coronagraph for LIving Planetary Systems, to enable direct...
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    multichannel imager, an integral field spectrograph, and a cool planet imaging coronagraph. The survey camera is also known as the multi-color photometry and slitless...
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  • precisely cast its shadow onto the Coronagraph’s telescope, blocking the Sun’s direct light. This will allow the Coronagraph to image the faint solar corona...
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    solar disk to explore the core of the Sun. Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO), which studies the structure and evolution of the corona by creating...
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    However, the estimated mass values for CMEs are only lower limits, because coronagraph measurements provide only two-dimensional data. CMEs erupt from strongly...
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