Interstellar Doppler Shifts

9010-017

 
    Microwave Visible
Wavelength   0.20 m 656 nm
Frequency   1.5 GHz 457 THz
  Velocity    
Transmitter on surface of rotating alien planet ±0.46 km/s ±2.31 kHz ±707 MHz
Transmitter in synchronous orbit about alien planet ±3.07 km/s ±15.5 kHz ±4.68 GHz
Extra-solar planet in orbit about alien star ±29.8 km/s ±149 kHz ±45.4 GHz
Relative (radial) motion between alien star system and Sol ±20.0 km/s ±100 kHz ±30.5 GHz

 

Alien star/planet system assumed similar to Sol/Earth.

 


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