heliostat
Sign in to savethumb|right|Heliostat by the Viennese instrument maker Johann Michael Ekling|Ekling (c. 1850) right|260px|thumb|A heliostat at the Themis (solar power plant)|THÉMIS experimental station in France. The mirror rotates on an [[altazimuth mount.]] thumb|right|260px|The Solar Energy Generating Systems|Solar Two solar-thermal power project near [[Daggett, California. Every mirror in the field of heliostats reflects sunlight continuously onto the receiver on the tower.]] thumb|right|260px|The 11MW PS10 near Seville in Spain. When this picture was taken, dust in the air made the converging light visib
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Within Vinony's link graph, heliostat is referenced by 169 other articles, and connects out to solar cooker, astronomy and star.
It is catalogued under the topic Solar energy.
Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.
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- machine
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Heliostats
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- power=heliostat
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- Large-scale projects
- Small-scale projects
- Design
- Tracking alternatives
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|Heliostat by the Viennese instrument maker Johann Michael Ekling|Ekling (c. 1850) right|260px|thumb|A heliostat at the Themis (solar power plant)|THÉMIS experimental station in France. The mirror rotates on an [[altazimuth mount.]] thumb|right|260px|The Solar Energy Generating Systems|Solar Two solar-thermal power project near [[Daggett, California. Every mirror in the field of heliostats reflects sunlight continuously onto the receiver on the tower.]] thumb|right|260px|The 11MW PS10 near Seville in Spain. When this picture was taken, dust in the air made the converging light visible. thumb|right|260px|The Odeillo solar furnace|solar furnace at Odeillo in the [[Pyrenees-Orientales in France can reach temperatures up to ]]
A heliostat () is a device that reflects sunlight toward a target, turning to compensate for the Sun's apparent motion. The reflector is usually a plane mirror.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “heliostat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.