Heliostat
id:
heliostat-207-568006
title:
Heliostat
text:
A heliostat is a device that includes a mirror, usually a plane mirror, which turns so as to keep reflecting sunlight toward a predetermined target, compensating for the Sun's apparent motions in the sky. The target may be a physical object, distant from the heliostat, or a direction in space. To do this, the reflective surface of the mirror is kept perpendicular to the bisector of the angle between the directions of the Sun and the target as seen from the mirror. In almost every case, the targe
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Solar tracking device
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliostat
date created:
2004-09-28T06:20:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T22:33:14Z
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13
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