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by tommikepat
Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:05 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Magnetograph in APOD 30 August 2006
Replies: 3
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Thanks

Thank you, Qev. But could you find a notch filter with a narrow enough bandpass to take advantage of the Zeeman splitting? The polarization difference would be far easier to exploit in an image format.

By the way, how'd you know about that 'other dog' my wife doesn't want?

tommikepat
by tommikepat
Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:46 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Magnetograph in APOD 30 August 2006
Replies: 3
Views: 1944

Magnetograph in APOD 30 August 2006

How can you 'photograph' the magnetic field status of a sunspot?