[vsnet-campaign-be 248] Re: [vsnet-spectroscopy 20] Re: [amateur_spectroscopy] FWHM of Del Sco H Alph...

[DWest61506@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/12/2003 7:00:52 PM Central Daylight Time, bish@space.mit.edu writes:


> But you can do that if and only if the blur is effectively described 
> in a Gaussian form. So for bad focus, maybe ok. But if you have 
> bad tracking that generates an oblique point spread function, you 
> won't be adjusting your spectra for instumental effects properly. 
> [I am assuming that you are doing a full-aperture prism spectro-
> scopy here.]


Bish:
I am using a Sivo Nu View II fiber optic spectrometer.  I am assuming that poor track won't cause any change in the point spread function.  Do you know of any good references on proper technique of measuring FWHM?
Thanks,
Doug