[Xelion]

Does anyone around here know any red shift sites or how to calculate red shift for two objects?

[Setekh]

 http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/redshf.html

First hit from Google  

[Xelion]

  I don't believe this, you came up with that link by searching through google and I use copernic and didn't really get anything useful at all. arghh   (slaps Copernic in the head. If it had one)

Well thanx for the link Setekh its very helpful.

  looking through hyperphysics site. doh! doh!   Okay does anyone know the difference between Red Shift and Parallax?

[This message has been edited by Max (edited 09-06-2001).]

[Setekh]

Not a problem - parallax? It's when you move around something, and a moving object looks like it's changed direction, when in fact it was you who changed direction.  

 

From Dictionary.com:
par·al·lax (pr-lks) n.
An apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight.

[Xelion]

Which means that Red shift measures the distance between two objects. right

[Jabu]

Red shift is just the calculation of a stellar-scale Doppler's effect. If a star is coming towards you, it's spectrum will shift towards the purple end, as it's sending higher-frequency light (the waves are closer together, because it's coming straight at ya). Red shift is the opposite, if a star is moving away, the spectrum shifts toward the red end because the waves are being stretched, thus becoming longer. (Red has the longest wavelenght of visible light, purple the shortest)

This is all from memory, and I'm only a wee lad, so I may well be wrong.

[Joey_21]

I believe this is how the distance between stars are figured but I'm not 100% sure... but sounds like it though.

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