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Originally Posted by Merlin66
Maurice Gavin was the first amateur to successfully record the spectrum and red shift of a quasar back in 1998.
He used a Star Analyser grating on his 12" Lx200 to determine the redshift of the 13th magnitude quasar 3C273.
(This is detailed with a illustration of the results in "Astronomical Spectroscopy for Amateurs", p119)
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Now that is an inspiration! I have ASforA - picked it up just after my SA arrived about 6 months back. So far I've only used it to extract spectra for some bright stars.
Off to study up
Cheers
Pete