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[–] 3 points 4 months ago

Nah, astronomical spectroscopy is cool as hell and it's really easy to have simplified examples you can fiddle with. At its most basic you're using a prism to divide the sun's light and measuring the visible bands. (This is pretty much how infrared light was discovered in 1800!)

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