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Old 31-10-2013, 01:37 PM
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Nice one Terry. I've been finding your spectra of the Nova over on the Astronomical Spectroscopy forum incredibly useful for understanding what's going on.

Forgive a newbie's question but it seems to me that getting all of the continuum from 4000-7200 into one image on a 314+ sensor at R=1200 is really impressive. Other spectra seem to capture far less at that resolution. How do you do it?

One of the reasons I'm asking is because I've been trying to work out which gratings to order with my L200. I want at least one to capture as much of the continuum as possible but think I have to go down to R=300 or even R=150 to do so. Am I missing something?

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Jonathan
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