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Far Ultra-violet Spectra of Orion Stars

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FAR ULTRA-VIOLET spectra of the brighter stars in the vicinity of ε Orionis were photographed with an objective spectrograph carried to 165 km by an Aerobee 150 rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range on September 20, 1966, at 10h 45m U.T. As with previous Princeton flights1,2 the spectrograph was stabilized by a passive gyro system which limited angular motion in the dispersion direction to about ±20″ during a 3 min exposure giving a resolution of about 1 Å.

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JENKINS, E., MORTON, D. Far Ultra-violet Spectra of Orion Stars. Nature 215, 1257–1259 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151257a0

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