Berkeley Extreme and Far-UV Spectrometer
(BEFS)
(1990s UV spectrometer used on two Space Shuttle missions)
The Berkeley Extreme and Far-UV Spectrometer (BEFS)
was an instrument on the ORFEUS Telescope,
a 1 meter telescope used during two Space Shuttle science missions,
ORFEUS-SPAS 1 in 1993 and ORFEUS-SPAS 2 in 1996.
(spectrometer,ultraviolet,space,NASA,past)
Further reading:
https://archive.stsci.edu/befs/
https://archive.stsci.edu/missions-and-data/orfeus
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998ApJ...500L...1H/abstract
http://www.astronautix.com/o/orfeus.html
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/orfeus-spas.htm
| WaveL | Freq | Photon
Energy | | |
| 39nm | 7.7PHz | 32eV | begin | Berkeley Extreme and Far-UV Spectrometer |
| 120nm | 2.5PHz | 10eV | end | Berkeley Extreme and Far-UV Spectrometer |
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