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Thinned CCDS suffer from fringing, especially
for observations with narrow passbands (<20nm) at
wavelengths >500nm. This is not a problem for broadband images. Fringing
in spectra flatfields out, but it is important to obtain a high
signal-to-noise rati flatfield at every grating setting.
Tue Aug 15 16:42:46 BST 1995