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- adjective Not using a
slit
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Examples
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It is also possible to use a prism to spread out the light from all the stars and remote galaxies seen in a Hubble image into their component colors to create what are called slitless spectra.
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He had a thick bundle of professorial hair and he wore European suits, slitless in the back, forgoing the burdened sacks of dark pinstripe that cloaked most of the pear-shaped men of the firm.
Mistress of Justice Deaver, Jeffery 1992
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When this nebula is observed with a slitless spectrograph the hydrogen and nebulium components are seen as circular discs, but the hydrogen discs are larger than the nebulium discs.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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When this nebula is observed with a slitless spectrograph the hydrogen and nebulium components are seen as circular discs, but the hydrogen discs are larger than the nebulium discs.
The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915
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The "slitless spectroscope" consists simply of a prism placed outside the object-glass of a telescope or the lens of a camera, whereby the radiance encompassing the eclipsed sun is separated into as many differently tinted rings as it contains different kinds of light.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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We propose a slitless WFC3/G141 IR grism survey of GOODS-N, at 2 orbits/pointing.
SpaceRef Top Stories 2010
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We propose to use the unique power of WFC3 slitless spectroscopy to measure the evolution of cosmic star formation from the end of the reionization epoch at z >
SpaceRef Top Stories 2010
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The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), based at ESO Headquarters in Garching, Germany, has processed a huge collection of slitless spectra from Hubble's
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We propose a slitless WFC3/G141 IR grism survey of GOODS-N, at 2 orbits/pointing.
SpaceRef Top Stories 2010
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We propose to use the unique power of WFC3 slitless spectroscopy to measure the evolution of cosmic star formation from the end of the reionization epoch at z
SpaceRef Top Stories 2010
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