A partial solar eclipse crossed over Binghamton, New York Monday afternoon. Here's a recap of our live coverage during the ...

There is a way to get more sunlight through our windows – a heliostat. Lucky for us, [Gabriel] sent in his Open Source Sun Tracking / Heliostat project that can reflect sunlight through our ...

A device that lets you do that is called a heliostat, which is really just a fancy mirror that you can set to reflect sunlight to wherever you might want it. You could aim it through a window so ...

In addition to the original 9-inch, f/13 refractor, the Stull Observatory now has a 6-inch heliostat, one 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector for H-alpha solar observations and another for general use ...

Sunlight is reflected into the tunnel-like shaft by a three-mirror device called a heliostat, providing astronomers with a safe look at solar flares, sunspots, and other features of our stormy star.

PLACE the heliostat in position, and bring a slender beam of light into the darkened room. Then get a small looking-glass, or hand-mirror, and a carpenter's steel square, or a sheet of stiff paper ...

Solar viewers are also set up outside. Inside the observatory, the physics lab is displaying the heliostat view of the ...

China emits the most greenhouse gases (GHG) in the world (33%), followed by the U.S. (15%). An argument of just a few years ago went what good would it do for the U.S. to reduce its own emissions ...

If there is one accessory I always, always have on my person, it's sunglasses. When I leave the house, the check is "phone, wallet, keys, sunglasses," because shades are just as essential as ...

For the experiments in the solar furnace, a plane mirror (heliostat) concentrates the incident sunlight into a concentrator consisting of 159 hexagonal mirrors. These are arranged in a honeycomb ...