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The second apparatus used by Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen in 1860/61 when they established the foundations of scientific spectroscopy was a 4-prism spectroscope built by Carl August...
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This morning (December 2, 2019) at about 6 UTC+1 and at a geographic place of about 52° N 13° E I saw a chain of 12 or more satellites in two groups (5 or more + 7), flying with equal distances in...
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Recently a colleague asked how far can I look into the Universe with my amateur telescope (i.e. by the eye, not by photography). I found a (German) source saying that the brightest quasar, 3C 273...
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