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In Section 1.4 we have seen how the shapes and motions of prominences have been used to define different classes of these objects. Many of these observations can be obtained with fairly unsophisticated instrumentation, and their interpretation is straightforward. To go beyond this morphological information, i.e., the shapes and overall, gross motions, requires knowledge of the prominence’s spectrum, and nearly all other information on the physics of prominences comes from more or less complex spectrographs and demands often considerable theoretical background to be properly interpreted.
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Tandberg-Hanssen, E. (1995). Interpretation of Observational Data. In: The Nature of Solar Prominences. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 199. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3396-0_2
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