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Slawomir

10-04-2017, 08:09 PM

Hi all,

Today I tried to take my first ever tar spectra with SA200. It happened that Eps Car was in the right position.

Would anyone be able to identify 1 or 2 absorption lines in the attached spectra; I am quite stuck with calibrating the image... :newbie:

Thank you!
Suavi

Merlin66

10-04-2017, 08:26 PM

suavi,
I'll have a look later, but I assume the first dip is Hbeta and the dominent dip at around pixel 950 is the telluric at 7600A.
I'll get back to you.
Ken

Slawomir

10-04-2017, 08:30 PM

Thank you Ken!

Collecting data for Alpha Crux and will use your graph as a reference :) Learning slowly to navigate BASS...

Suavi

Merlin66

10-04-2017, 08:53 PM

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=eps+car&NbIdent=1&Radius=2&Radius.unit=arcmin&submit=submit+id
A K3 III is not an easy target to start with!
Much easier to have an A type star then move onto the "more" difficult...