Successfully Starting in Astronomical Spectroscopy

François Cochard

Description

You have decided to jump into astronomical spectroscopy, or you are thinking about it. If you wish to understand how to start, to go deeper, or simply increase your knowledge and improve your results, then this book is made for you!

Amateur interest in Astronomical spectroscopy is on the rise. More and more amateur astronomers are diving into the adventure. Getting a star spectrum, today is easily feasible, with modest equipment – if you have a method, and go step by step. This book is a guide; it is very practical. It addresses all the issues required to quickly assist you in obtaining quality spectra with a slit spectroscope. We talk about astrophysics and optics, but it is not an astrophysical or optical course. No prerequisite is needed.

A big part of the book is dedicated to the setup of your equipment and to obtaining spectra in the field. This is often where beginners face problems: one needs to make several devices (telescope, spectroscope, camera…) work together. Little by little, you’ll learn how to get your first spectra, to perform data reduction, and to look at your spectra with more and more expectations – up to the moment when you realize that you’re doing real science.

« The book you are about to read is remarkable in the sense that it makes the foundations of astronomical spectroscopy accessible to all and provides practical advice for its application. It will without doubt give you the desire to embark on this great adventure, and provides you the means to achieve it. »
extract from the preface written by Claude Catala, President of the Observatoire de Paris

Sujets

• Physique
• Physical attractiveness
• Astronomie
• Science
• Astrophysique
• Physics
• Astrophysics
• Sciences et techniques

Informations

• Publié par: EDP Sciences
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9782759822485
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 42 Mo

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PROfle - François Cochard
Successfully Starting in Astronomical Spectroscopy
PROfle
Successfully Starting
in Astronomical Spectroscopy
A Practical Guide
François Cochard PROfle
You have decided to jump into astronomical spectroscopy, or you are thinking about it. If you
wish to understand how to start, to go deeper, or simply increase your knowledge and improve your
results, then this book is made for you!
Amateur interest in Astronomical spectroscopy is on the rise. More and more amateur astronomers are
diving into the adventure. Getting a star spectrum, today is easily feasible, with modest equipment –
if you have a method, and go step by step. This book is a guide; it is very practical. It addresses all Successfully Starting the issues required to quickly assist you in obtaining quality spectra with a slit spectroscope. We talk
about astrophysics and optics, but it is not an astrophysical or optical course. No prerequisite is needed.
A big part of the book is dedicated to the setup of your equipment and to obtaining spectra in the in Astronomical field. This is often where beginners face problems: one needs to make several devices (telescope,
spectroscope, camera…) work together. Little by little, you’ll learn how to get your first spectra, to
perform data reduction, and to look at your spectra with more and more expectations – up to the
moment when you realize that you’re doing real science. Spectroscopy
« The book you are about to read is remarkable in the sense that it makes the foundations of
astronomical spectroscopy accessible to all and provides practical advice for its application. It will
without doubt give you the desire to embark on this great adventure, and provides you the means A Practical Guide
to achieve it. »
extract from the preface written by Claude Catala, President of the Observatoire de Paris
François Cochard, is a French amateur astronomer, and co-founder and manager
of Shelyak Instruments company. He was deeply involved in the design and the
manufacturing of instruments that are today considered standards: Lhires III,
LISA, eShel, Alpy 600. As the organizer of the Spectro Star Party every year at the François Cochard
Observatoire de Haute Provence, he has assisted a lot of observers in their frst steps
in spectroscopy. Preface from Claude Catala
Translation made by Mathieu Renzo, PhD student in theoretical astrophysics at the
University of Amsterdam. He has been carrying out research in the feld of computational
astrophysics, focusing on the evolution and fnal fate of massive stars.
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