H{alpha} spectra of MWC 342 spectra, 2004-2010

The background, together with the night sky lines, is eliminated during spectra subtraction by individual pixel columns. The remaining wavelength calibration, heliocentric correction, and the continuum fitting are also performed using IRAF. The heliocentric correction was applied on the data.

Chebyshev polynomial of the third order is used for the spectra normalisation to fit the intervals, which apparently contain no spectral lines. Each continuum interval is split into sub-intervals of five pixels, where the median value is taken for the continuum evaluation. Possible remaining cosmic ray hits thus do not affect continuum normalisation.