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emission line spectrum
Spectrum of a mercury calibration lamp
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The bright emission lines correspond to light emitted between discrete levels of the mercury atom. They have specific colors according with the energy difference between the atomic levels.

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Spectrum taken with a hand-made spectrogram and a commercial OLYMPUS digital camera.

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Stellar & Interstellar Physics (FEEI)
Visible instrumentation

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