Abstract
WHILE photographing meteor spectra using a conventional meteor spectrograph with a rotating shutter arrangement, wake spectra may sometimes be obtained in the breaks between the segments of the primary spectra. Credit goes to the Canadians for obtaining the existing seven wake spectra1 in the world.
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RAO, M., LOKANADHAM, B. Wake Spectrum of a Leonid Meteor. Nature 198, 77–78 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198077b0
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