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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2893. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation And Observational Techniques, Astronomical Instrumentation

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The coronagraph was invented to satisfy our natural curiosity as to the nature of the solar atmosphere above the photosphere. Up until the nineteenth century it was (incorrectly) thought that the light coming from the CORONA was due to scattering in the Earth's atmosphere. During a natural total solar eclipse, when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, the splendor of the solar corona is...

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