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What does heliometer mean?

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Noun
  1. An astronomical instrument, based on a telescope, for measuring the diameter of the sun; now used to measure the angular distance between stars and other celestial bodies.
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To sum up briefly the history of the development of the heliometer.
But there is one instrument of great value, the heliometer, which is not used at Greenwich.
After the expedition the heliometer was donated to the Observatory who built a tower for it.
On an entirely different plan is a survey just concluded by Chase with the Yale heliometer.
He also determined the distances, using the heliometer, of twenty of the brighter and nearer Southern stars.
In 1888 89 he carried out, with the cooperation of many astronomers, a program of intensive observation of selected minor planets with the heliometer.

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