coronagraph

English

Etymology

From corona +‎ -graph.

Noun

coronagraph (plural coronagraphs)

1. (astronomy) A telescope that has an attachment which blocks out the direct light from the sun or other star, allowing examination of the corona and the detection of exoplanets.
   • 2015, Huw Morgan, “An atlas of coronal electron density at 5Rs I: Data processing and calibration”, in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series‎^[1], volume 219:

     The crosscalibration between LASCO C2 and the STEREO coronagraphs allows, for the first time, the potential use of multi-spacecraft coronagraph data for tomography and for CME analysis..

Derived terms

• coronagraphic

Translations

Translations

• German: Koronograph (de) m
• Greek: στεμματογράφος m (stemmatográfos)
• Persian: تاج‌نگار (tâj-negâr)
• Polish: koronograf (pl) m
• Portuguese: coronógrafo m