Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lyra (Lyr)  ·  Contains:  3 alf Lyr  ·  HD172167  ·  HD172741  ·  The star Vega (αLyr)  ·  Vega
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Vega with spectral analysis, Johannes D. Clausen
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Vega with spectral analysis

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Vega with spectral analysis

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Spectrum of Vega captured using the Star Analyser 100 grated filter and analyzed with RSpec.

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Description: Comparison of the spectra of Vega and Deneb.

Vega and Deneb are both blue-white A-class stars of similar apparent magnitude. However, Vega is a main sequence dwarf star, whereas Deneb is a supergiant. The hydrogen Balmer lines are much narrower in giant stars compared with main sequence stars, because of the lower surface gravity, which means that the gas where the lines form is much less dense, so they don't show up so well at the limited resolution of the SA100 filter used here. Furthermore, the H-alpha of Deneb also has an emission component, which is blended in with the absorption component making the line even weaker.

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Vega with spectral analysis, Johannes D. Clausen