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  2. Meteorological instrumentation - Wikipedia

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    Remote sensing instruments collect data from weather events some distance from the instrument and typically stores the data where the instrument is located and often transmits the data at defined intervals to central data centers. In 1441, King Sejong's son, Prince Munjong, invented the first standardized rain gauge.

  3. Double sunset - Wikipedia

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    The church is a medieval building, and it has been conjectured that the churchyard is an example of an ancient sacred site having been Christianised. Because of the chronology of the changing alignment, it seems that the site could not have been a viewing-point for the double sunset before the Iron Age. The first people to view the phenomenon ...

  4. Sunshine recorder - Wikipedia

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    The other instrument is a Marvin sunshine recorder. Older recorders required a human observer to interpret the results; recorded results might differ among observers. Modern sunshine recorders use electronics and computers for precise data that do not depend on a human interpreter. Newer recorders can also measure the global and diffuse radiation.

  5. Campbell–Stokes recorder - Wikipedia

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    Comparisons with automatic instruments at German stations revealed that during summer the differences of the two measurement systems can reach up to 4 h per day. The mean difference was −0.23 h, i.e. the measurements of the Campbell–Stokes recorder are larger than the automatic.

  6. Sunset provision - Wikipedia

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    Sunset provisions have been used extensively throughout legal history. [2] The idea of general sunset provisions was discussed extensively in the late 1970s. [3] Sunset clauses with an effective extension review process have been argued as a safeguard of democracy to ensure emergency provisions, such as state of emergency, remain temporary. [4]

  7. Heliotrope (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The heliotrope is an instrument that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight over great distances to mark the positions of participants in a land survey. The heliotrope was invented in 1821 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.

  8. Sunset - Wikipedia

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    Actual sunset: Two minutes before the Sun disappears below the horizon. Sunset (or sundown) is the disappearance of the Sun at the end of the Sun path, below the horizon of the Earth (or any other astronomical object in the Solar System) due to its rotation.

  9. Heliograph - Wikipedia

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    The heliograph was a simple but effective instrument for instantaneous optical communication over long distances during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [2] Its main uses were military, surveying and forest protection work. Heliographs were standard issue in the British and Royal Australian armies until the 1960s, and were used by the ...