my new old spectroscopy book

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my new old spectroscopy book

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picked up old copy(1875) of "Schellen's Spectrum Analysis"
wonderful illustrations
cover : can u guess what it is?
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random other pages
there is a whole topic of 1868 eclipse
as well as others
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oops 1872 not 1875


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Wow!! what a beauty!

I'm guessing the Sun :)

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highfnum wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2020 1:43 am oops 1872 not 1875
Great, at that book age 3 years difference do not matter :lol:


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i am referring to cover image guess again


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An excellent book. One for a display cabinet. :)

I believe the cover image is a solar spectroscope by Norman Lockyer. Multiple prisms in a circular arrangement to achieve high dispersion. I only know because the original (or maybe a reproduction) was on display at the Science museum in London a couple of years ago.

https://solarchatforum.com/viewtopic.p ... um#p227191

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It does look like a drawing of the Sun though :) with bits sticking out, but Stuart's idea looks better

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Stu got it!!
its a prizm train


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one thing i don't understand
some images show spectroscopes
with even numbers of prizms
how can that work?

disperse combine. - even
disperse combine disperse-- odd
you get what i mean?
it should always end with disperse?


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great photo Stu
book has that same image
Note; wearing that hat should be a requirement when looking at sun :lol:
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highfnum wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 11:12 am one thing i don't understand
some images show spectroscopes
with even numbers of prizms
how can that work?

disperse combine. - even
disperse combine disperse-- odd
you get what i mean?
it should always end with disperse?
Hi John,

I think they all disperse; no recombination. This gives an overall gradually increasingly wider degree of dispersion throughout the train.

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thx stu
FYI that scope was OD 6.5 inch , FL of 96.5 (in book)


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Whoooo
That's a great and very useful find!
(There's a eCopy available: https://ia803207.us.archive.org/12/item ... 00sche.pdf )

The dispersion of a prism is directly related to the base length - either a very (very!) large and expensive prism, or the addition of many smaller ones - there is a limit around eight prisms when the light loss becomes unacceptable.


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