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Old 02-08-2012, 06:37 PM
Poita (Peter)
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Originally Posted by silv View Post

The totally different but also inspiring thing I came across here on IIS, yesterday, was the idea of looking at the spectrum of whatever is up there and find out about the chemical properties. Sending star light through a prism like Fraunhofer did, I think.
It is surpisingly easy and inexpensive to get into as well, I bought one of these http://www.rspec-astro.com/star-analyser/ and was launched into a whole new world...
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