What does UV-A stand for?

Near-UltraViolet

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UV-VIS spectroscopy is the measurement of the wavelength and intensity of absorption of near-ultraviolet and visible light by a sample.

The laboratory notebook: answering important questions about quality

These include a recently revived near-infrared camera and the Advanced Camera for Surveys, which records both ultrasharp visible-light images and low-resolution spectra at visible light and near-ultraviolet wavelengths.

One of Hubble's tools fails: observatory loses a sharp ultraviolet eye

Sony Electronics introduces the XCD-SX900UV black-and-white, high-resolution digital CCD video camera with near-ultraviolet (UV) sensitivity.

High-resolution digital camera. (Product Spotlight)

Now, for the first time, astronomers using a ground-based telescope have observed near-ultraviolet light from another star's corona.

Ground-based telescope detects star's corona

Using Hubble to take near-ultraviolet images and spectra in late January, he and his colleagues now can measure the concentration of sulfur dioxide at several heights in the planet's cloudy atmosphere.

Solar system scenes: images and spectra offer new views from Venus to ...

But unlike other space-borne observatories, which have detected light emissions from distant X-ray, infrared and near-ultraviolet sources, this group of telescopes will have little chance of examining even the outskirts of our own galaxy - let alone objects at the edge of the observable universe.

Exploring the Extreme Ultraviolet

In this false-color, near-ultraviolet image, blue represents the lowest intensity and the white at the nebula's center highlights the region of highest intensity.

Crab, spiral galaxy caught in UV light