photoheliography
photoheliography noun: heliography (photography of the sun), especially as undertaken using a photoheliograph.
Noun
photoheliography (uncountable)
- Heliography (photography of the sun), especially as undertaken using a photoheliograph.
- The difficulties of photoheliography consist principally in the rapidity with which the sun's image acts upon the sensitive film.1860, Photographic news for amateur photographers, volumes 3-4, page 113
- Difficulties of Photoheliography. — Whilst in lunar and stellar photography many of the obstacles to be overcome arose from the deficiency of photographic power in the unenlarged focal images of those celestial objects, the difficulties which have stood in the way of producing good sun-pictures...1860, Report of the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, volume 29, page 150
Origin of photoheliography
From photo- + heliography.
Words that rhyme with photoheliography
- geography
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- topography
- chirography
- hagiography
- heliography
- phonography
- semiography
- acrography
- autography
- bibliography
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- cacography
- chromography
- demography
- discography
- iconography
- isography
- logography
- ludography
- metallography
- micrography
- paleography
- pantography
- pornography
- scenography
- typography
- videography
- aerography
- archaeography
- arteriography
- arthrography
- autobiography
- autohagiography
- biogeography
- biography
- cartography
- cerography
- chronography
- cinematography
- cosmography
- crystallography
- dactylography
- demonography
- dittography
- electrography
- enterography
- ethnography
- etymography
- exogeography
- fluorography
- galvanography
- glossography
- heterography
- historiography
- homography
- horologiography
- ichnography
- laryngography
- mechanography
Questions about photoheliography
- What does photoheliography mean?
- Photoheliography means heliography (photography of the sun), especially as undertaken using a photoheliograph.
- What part of speech is photoheliography?
- Photoheliography is a noun.
Words near photoheliography in the dictionary
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