Skylab ultraviolet stellar astronomy experiment S019.
Abstract
An objective-prism stellar spectrograph of 15-cm aperture was flown on all three Skylab missions. The wavelength region from 1300 A to 5000 A was covered by a special optical system containing a combination of reflecting telescope optics, a CaF2 objective prism, and an achromatized field-corrector lens system of CaF2 and LiF. Observations of 188 star fields, each covering 4.0 x 5.0 deg of arc, were conducted at the Skylab antisolar airlock with the aid of an articulated mirror system which allowed acquisition within a 30 by 360 deg band of the sky.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- April 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.16.000973
- Bibcode:
- 1977ApOpt..16..973O
- Keywords:
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- Skylab Program;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- Stellar Spectrophotometry;
- Ultraviolet Spectrometers;
- Absorption Spectra;
- Calcium Fluorides;
- Lens Design;
- Lithium Fluorides;
- Mirrors;
- Photographic Film;
- Prisms;
- Reflecting Telescopes;
- Spectral Line Width;
- Ultraviolet Spectroscopy;
- Astronomy