Borrowed Atoms.

By chancemedley

Dog Star.

Photograph of Sirius taken through a diffraction grating held over the eyepiece of my trusty 10X50 binoculars whilst hanging out of a window on a very cold night. Even though the image of the star is slightly blurred, a faint spectrum can be seen to the left with a tantalising hint of a hydrogen absorbtion line.

My first stellar spectrum!

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