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Old 17-05-2017, 09:50 PM
robin_astro
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There is a significant limitation with scanning spectrometers for astro work though compared with imaging the full spectrum. Because you have to expose each waveband in turn, total exposure times are much longer (~100x longer, even for a resolution of ~5nm) and any changes in atmospheric extinction during the scan will distort the spectrum.

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