Coronagraph

Seeing sun with coronagraph

A coronagraph is a telescope to see things around the Sun. The telescope uses a disk to block the bright surface of the sun, exposing bright objects around the sun to be visible to human eyes.

Coronagraph Media

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  Coronagraph image of the Sun

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  Coronagraph at the Wendelstein Observatory

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  Aditya-L1 is the f irst space-based observatory-class Indian solar mission to study the Sun. The spacecraft is planned to be placed in a halo orbit around sun.

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  Direct image of exoplanets around the star HR8799 using a vector vortex coronagraph on a 1.5 m portion of the Hale telescope