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|    Measuring sunlight strength throughout t    |
|    03 Oct 17 18:55:36    |
      Hi All,              I am working on a project: we have a light sensor with only around 40 degrees       field of view. Our goal is to measure the strength of the sunlight without       introducing too much of a bias based on the time of the day - when the sun       shines at a different        angle. We want to keep the sensor stationary.              I was thinking about using a set of lenses to change the angle of the rays but       I am stuck, since one lens would only focus the parallel rays of different       angles to different points in the focal plane - and our sensor has a fairly       small surface area.              Some of the diffusers I have found were only changing the angles with up to 10       degrees which is not enough, since we want to measure from -75 to 75 degrees.              Another concern is to find a solution which doesn't filter out much of the       light spectrum.              Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this challenge?               Thank you in advance!              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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