SPECTRAL DATA REFERENCE - Annie Jump Cannon COLORS: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, nanometers: >610 590-610 570-590 500-570 450-500 < 450. CLASS spectra color color_index eff.temp. examples O He II,He I blue -0.3 28,000-50,000 epsilon Ori. B He I, H blue-white -0.2 9,900-28,000 Rigel,Spica A H white 0.0 7,400-9,900 Vega,Sirius F metals,H yellow-white 0.3 6,000-7,400 Procyon G Ca II,metals yellow 0.7 4,900-6,000 Sun, Alpha Cen K Ca II, molec. orange 1.2 3,500-4,900 Arcturus M TiO, Ca I,molec.orange-red 1.4 2,000-3,500 Betelguese R CN,C orange-red 1.7 3,500-5,400 ... carbon stars S ZrO,molec. orange-red 1.7 2,000-3,500 R Cyg carbon stars N C red > 2 1,900-3,500 R Lep carbon stars PROMINENT SPECTRAL LINES - 1 nm = 10 Angstrom Units hydrogen -> 656.3 nm, C neutral sodium -> 589.3 nm D neutral Helium -> 587.6 nm, ... neutral iron -> 527.0 nm E neutral magnesium -> 516.7 nm,517.3, 518.4 b TiO, cool stars -> 495.5 nm, hydrogen -> 486.1 nm F ionized He, hot -> 468.6 nm, Fe I -> 438.4 nm d CH molecule -> 430.0 nm, G hydrogen H -> 434.0 nm ... neutral Ca I -> 422.7 nm, g hydrogen H -> 410.1 nm h ionized Ca II -> 396.8 nm, H ionized Ca II -> 393.4 nm K $