Bibcode
Mainella, G.; Ceppatelli, G.; Mattig, W.; Briand, C.
Bibliographical reference
Solar Physics, Volume 234, Issue 1, pp.187-201
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2006
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Description
Mercury's transit on the solar disk offers ideal conditions to determine
the stray light level of instruments. We present here the results on the
stray light level deduced from the observation of the Mercury transit on
2003 May 7th at the secondary focus of the THEMIS telescope with the
broad-band and spectral channels of the IPM instrument. The scattered
light in the broad-band channel is about 17% and about 25% in the
spectral channel. The spread function was deduced for the two channels
taking into account the observations on the limb and on Mercury's disk.