Upcoming spectroscopy presentation

[Merlin66]

https://britastro.org/spectro2019

This should be of interest to all amateurs interested in spectroscopy.

Both BASS Project and ISIS software will be covered.

 

[robin_astro]

Yes this is the latest in a series of workshops and other initiatives over the past few years by the BAA to support members wanting to get into spectroscopy and produce useful scientific data.  You can see the presentations from the first workshop which kicked off this initiative in 2015 here

https://www.britastro.org/downloads/15701

The BAA now also have a spectroscopy database, to complement their variable star database. Good quality spectra of any object can be submitted for use by researchers. Over 4000 spectra have been added in the  2.5 years it has been running

https://britastro.org/specdb/

Earlier this month the BAA  also took part in a  Pro-Am  session at the professional UK National Astronomy Meeting  where I gave a short paper on amateur spectroscopy,

https://nam2019.org/schedule-by-session/details/27/325

a follow up to one I gave at the same meeting 10 years earlier.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009JBAA..119..121L

The number of amateurs doing spectroscopy at a Pro-Am level has increased significantly over the past 10 years.

Robin

Edited July 15, 2019 by robin_astro