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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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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Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory satellite (SOHO) consists of three solar coronagraphs with nested fields...
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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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Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) is a key instrument on the Aditya spacecraft. The VELC is an internally occulted reflective coronagraph designed to fulfil...
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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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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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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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planetary atmospheres and eclipse starlight with either an internal coronagraph or an external starshade. The proposal, first made in 2016, is for a...
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