Can someone help me with spectroscopy

[shinok]

I am really interested in spectroscopy but i have no idea where to star with it, i know you just need a good camera and telescope but do i have to buy a special program do convert the pics/vids, any advice would be really helpful

Thanks

Mikey

[NLO]

A good place to start is to read about the different equipement available and how to use it, try Astronomical Spectroscopy for Amateurs by Ken Harrison, or his book on grating spectroscopes. After that it would be good to look at some website of people who are doing spectroscopy, such as http://www.threehill...pectroscopy.htm, http://www.astroman.fsnet.co.uk/spectro.htm

For more info and software help and general assistance look at :

http://astrosurf.com/buil(Christian Buil)

Visual Spec (Valerie Desnoux)

www.astrosurf.com/aras/(Astronomical Ring for Access to Spectroscopy)

http://spektroskopie.fg-vds.de/index_e.htm (VdS Spectroscopy section)

http://www.astrospectroscopy.de/ (ASPA - Ernst Pollman)

http://spectroscopy.wordpress.com/ (Club of Amateurs in Optical Spectroscopy - ESO)

http://www.astrospectroscopy.eu (Lothar Schanne)

or any of the yahoo groups, which are full of very helpful people:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/amateur_spectroscopy (English language group, mainly but not exclusively astronomical)

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/spectro-l/ (French/English language group to support the Astronomical Ring for Access to Spectroscopy (ARAS) )

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SBIG-SGS/ (English language group for the SBig SGS spectrograph)

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/spectrohelioscopes/ (English language group discussing design construction and use of spectrohelioscopes)

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/staranalyser/ (Mainly English language group for the Star Analyser spectrograph)

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/astronomical_spectroscopy/ (Group primarily for the L200 kit spectrograph but also general topics).

I use my starlight xpress MX9 with a staranalyser through a 5inch makcas and get some simple but very interesting results. It is very addictive and a great way to learn more about the stars. I use a program called rspec, but this costs and there are free programs - vspec and ISIS.

Kate

[Merlin66]

I think Kate has said it all!

[NLO]

Its all the stuff I wish I knew 2 years ago before I started experimenting, but found afterwards.

[nytecam]

Been doing spectro for quite a while and plenty of links via my sig below which may be useful including DIY @ http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/newspecold.html

[shinok]

sorry for the late reply, i posted this a few weeks ago and was waiting for it to show up on my notifications list..... which i didn't lol, thanks for the links going to check them out right now.

Many thanks