coelostat
an apparatus consisting of a mirror driven by clockwork, used to enable a fixed telescope to keep the same area of sky in its field of view by compensating for the apparent rotation of the celestial sphere.
Origin of coelostat
1- Compare siderostat.
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How to use coelostat in a sentence
It will be laid comfortably flat on the ground, and the rays of light reflected into it by a coelostat.
Astronomical Discovery | Herbert Hall Turner
British Dictionary definitions for coelostat
/ (ˈsiːləˌstæt) /
an astronomical instrument consisting of a plane mirror mounted parallel to the earth's axis and rotated about this axis once every two days so that light from a celestial body, esp the sun, is reflected onto a second mirror, which reflects the beam into a telescope: Compare siderostat
Origin of coelostat
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