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In 1930, Bernard Lyot invented the coronagraph that allowed total solar eclipses to be recreated at will. It is essentially a telescope with a small disk in the focal plane to exactly cover the disk of the sun like the moon would


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Even during cloudless days with clear air, you can see a bright ring around the Sun caused by the scattering of sunlight in the atmosphere. A coronagraph can study the intensity of solar aureole