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Definition of Siderostat

Siderostat
Siderostat Sid"er*o*stat, n. [L. sidus, sideris, a star + Gr. ??? standing, fixed, fr. ???? to place.] (Astron.) An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.

Meaning of Siderostat from wikipedia

- together with additional components to bisect the sun-mirror-target angle. A siderostat is a similar device which is designed to follow a fainter star, rather...
- objects was redirected into the optical tube ****embly via a Foucault siderostat, a movable plane mirror 2 m (6.6 ft) in diameter, mounted in a large cast-iron...
- Focault siderostat for aiming light into the Image-forming optical system part of the telescope, which had a 125 cm diameter lens. Using a siderostat incurs...
- allows images to be formed. Both types of station have three elements: a siderostat, a Wide Angle Star Acquisition (WASA) camera, and a Narrow Angle Tracking...
- H-alpha spectral lines are in regular use. A 46 cm diameter Foucault siderostat feeds light to a 30 cm aperture f/22, Cooke triplet lens. The two prism...
- also housed a thirty-five foot long Foucault pendulum and a ten-inch, Siderostat-type, refractor telescope (now the second largest of its type). The planetarium...
- yet commissioned) 50000 0.7 4% 10 16 Yes at Lowell Observatory 12cm siderostats operational 3 x 1.0m apertures being added World's largest optical baseline-437m...
- (KPNO) in November 1996, using the flat mirrors of a two axis, all-sky siderostat p****ing light horizontally through a 0.6 m diameter, 8.6 m focal length...
- branch of the company started in 1996 with delivery of special devices (siderostats) for the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Recent telescope projects...
- a 10" tube for observing. ****ociated with this telescope is the Cooke Siderostat which projects the Sun's optical spectrum and Fraunhofer absorption lines...