How Does a 408mm Cassegrain Telescope's CCD Capture Light Spectrum?

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hey guys anyone got any ideas on this:

f/19 cassegrain focus of a 408mm telescope. ccd is 12.3mm long, each pixel is a square of side 24 x 10E-6 m, grating used has 1200lines/mm

1. = the spectrum is imaged on a ccd with a zoo lens such that the dispersion is 3.3nm/mm. what is the range of wavelengths that can be imaged on the ccd?

2. = the range of wavelengths that fall on a single ccd pixel

3. = the resolution of this spectrograph in terms of the radial velocity of the source of radiation, if the spectrum is centred on 600nm

cheers everyone!

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