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III.—Note on the Little b Group of Lines in the Solar Spectrum and the New College Spectroscope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

C. Piazzi Smyth
Affiliation:
Astronomer-Royal for Scotland

Extract

Every spectroscopist is perfectly aware that the group of dark Fraunhofer lines in the Solar Spectrum, known as “ little b,” is composed of the biggest, broadest, most colossal lines in all the brighter part of any and every spectrum depending on Sunlight, whether direct from the Sun or reflected from the earth's atmosphere, the Moon, or any of the planets.

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