October 3, 2005 (v1)
Conference paper
In this paper, the new coronagraph that will be mounted at the Pic du Midi Observatory (IMCCE - T1m telescope) is presented. To optimize the occulting process of a Lyot coronagraph, a compressed mercury (Hg) drop is used as an occulting disk and its size control offers an adaptation to the seeing conditions or to the Airy diameter fraction...
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