Using Commercial Amateur Astronomical Spectrographs

• Main Author: Hopkins, Jeffrey L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series,
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.

Amateur astronomers interested in learning more about astronomical spectroscopy now have the guide they need. It provides detailed information about how to get started inexpensively with low-resolution spectroscopy, and then how to move on to more advanced  high-resolution spectroscopy. Uniquely, th...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Part I Introduction to Spectroscopy
• Spectroscopy Theory
• Astronomical Spectroscopy Theory
• Part II Using Amateur Spectrographs
• Equipment
• Taking Spectra
• Low Resolution Spectroscopy with a Star Analyser
• High Resolution with a Lhires III 2400/600 line/mm gratings
• Part III Spectrum Processing Software
• DIY (Excel)
• RSpec
• Vspec.