Solar telescope

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Solar telescopes are special purpose telescopes used to observe sun. They are among the biggest fixed telescopes, and they are equipped with optical flat mirror system to track the sun on the sky and to direct it into the telescope. (Those tracking systems are called heliostats or siderostats.)

Some examples:


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