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Old 09-24-2011, 05:27 AM   #43
beppe
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To know how light is dispersed you must know what it was when was emitted. That you do not know except by assuming that it has a spectrum similar to something else. You can estimate radial velocity of the source by the shift of lines, but not much more than that. Do you think that an effect of -50 dB could be resolvable with all those approximations and assumptions?
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