SPRINGER USING COMMERCIAL AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROGRAPHS 2014 RETAIL EBOOK-kE

TITLE: USING COMMERCIAL AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROGRAPHS

PUBLISHER: SPRINGER LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

LINK: http://is.gd/sSaaMI RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL

FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2014.03.14

ISBN: 9783319014425 STORE DATE: 2014

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AUTHOR: HOPKINS, JEFFREY L



BOOK



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

the instructions concentrate very much on the practical aspects

of using commercially-available spectroscopes, rather than simply

explaining how spectroscopes work



The book includes a clear explanation of the laboratory theory

behind astronomical spectrographs, and goes on to extensively

cover the practical application of astronomical spectroscopy in

detail. Four popular and reasonably-priced commercially available

diffraction grating spectrographs are used as examples. The first

is a low-resolution transmission diffraction grating, the Star

Analyser spectrograph. The second is an inexpensive fiber optic

coupled bench spectrograph that can be used to learn more about

spectroscopy. The third is a newcomer, the ALPY 600 spectrograph

The fourth spectrograph considered is at the other end of the

market both in performance and cost, the high-resolution Lhires

III. While considerably more expensive, this is a popular and

excellent scientific instrument, that allows more advanced

amateur astronomers to produce scientifically valuable

data



With all of these tools in place, the amateur astronomer is

well-prepared to forger deeper into the night sky using

spectroscopy