Apollo 16 far-ultraviolet imagery and spectra of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Abstract
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was observed with a far-ultraviolet camera/spectrograph (Experiment S-201) from the lunar surface during the Apollo 16 mission. Images were obtained with about 3-arcmin resolution, in the 1050-1600- and 1250-1600-A wavelengths ranges, of nearly the entire LMC. Spectra were also obtained in the 1050-1600- and 900-1600-A ranges with 30-40-A resolution along a strip 0.25 deg wide passing across the LMC. The images and spectra have been scanned with a microdensitometer, and analyses of the data to date are discussed.
- Publication:
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Space Research XVII
- Pub Date:
- 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977spre.conf..749P
- Keywords:
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- Apollo 16 Flight;
- Astronomical Photography;
- Astronomical Spectroscopy;
- Far Ultraviolet Radiation;
- Magellanic Clouds;
- Ultraviolet Photography;
- Ultraviolet Spectroscopy;
- H Alpha Line;
- Hot Stars;
- Microdensitometers;
- Spectral Resolution;
- Spectrum Analysis;
- Astronomy;
- Magellanic Clouds:UV Spectra