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Photographic observation of close binaries with large magnitude differences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Bernhard Wedel*
Affiliation:
Wilhelm-Foerster-Sternwarte, Berlin

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Problems:

1.Size of diffraction image

2.Ross effect (shrinking of high exposed star images in the photographic emulsion)

3.Halo by diffusion of light in the photographic emulsion

4. Scintillation

Methods of improving the observation conditions are as following:

1.Deformation of diffraction image with quadratic or other formed masks

2.Diffraction gratings render possible a better measurement but don’t avoid Ross effect and halo of diffusion.

The halo of diffusion can reach much more of diameter than the original image.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Lowell Observatory 1983