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Old 08-04-2015, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by clive milne View Post
One further point that probably deserves mention wrt extragalactic emission line sources; There will be approximately 1nm of bandwidth shift per 21Mly for Ha & 27Mly for Oiii

You can see that 3nm filters are pretty much out of band for objects as close as Virgo cluster members.

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Well...there you go, never thought of that so collecting a Ha data set to highlight the HII regions in galaxies outside our local group, using a 3nm Ha filter, will show nothing..?
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