By Guillaume Bertrand I started astronomy at the age of 15, in 2003, with the opposition of Mars. I quickly joined the astronomy club “Village du ciel” based in Vendée to exchange with other amateur astronomers. My first instrument was a 114/900, I got all...
By François Cochard & Christian Buil The Sol’Ex project (later followed by Star’Ex) offers a new way of “entering Astronomy”: it is an approach that is affordable, simple, fun and fascinating. Here is what it is in a nutshell. Sol’Ex,...
The TimeBox Use for asteroid occultation dating. By Daniel Verilhac, amateur astronomer Introduction The observation of stars occultations by asteroids is an exciting sport, it allows with few means to contribute to science. It is an excellent playground for amateurs...
Book your week from July 25 to 30, 2022. Every year, Association Aude and Shelyak Instruments organize the Spectro Star Party at the Observatoire de Haute Provence, in St Michel l’Observatoire, near Manosque in southern France. This event is an opportunity to observe...
Sn 1181, an unusual story … By Pascal Le Dû Pascal Le Dû is an amateur astronomer who observes the sky from Brittany point in France. It analyzes and lists the candidate planetary nebulae spotted by amateurs. He maintains the basis of French discoveries...
UVEX : extreme spectra By Olivier Garde Introduction Through this article, I will show we can do extreme spectra in the near UV and the near IR with a UVEX equipped with the standard 600 gr/mm grating. This allows to obtain resolutions from R = 820 @ 350nm up to R...
RS Oph : the contribution of Shelyak spectrographs By Olivier Garde Introduction A Nova is a “new star” that appears in the sky. In fact, this star existed long before it was suddenly accessible to our instruments (even in a few rare cases to our eyes),...
UVEX, to write a new page in astronomy by François Cochard We are happy to announce the arrival of a new instrument in the Shelyak range. This event is important for several reasons. It’s a sign of the dynamism of the astronomical community, which always pushes...
Spectroscopic observations on Beta Persei (Algol) By Jörg Schirmer I had my first contact with astronomy when I was 10 years old when my grandfather gave me the book “AUS FERNEN WELTEN” by Bruno H. Bürgel from 1920. That probably fascinated me so much that...
Creating an image via spectral scans By Lionel Mulato Lionel Mulato is an astrophotographer and spectroscopist, his observatory is based near Avignon. He studied physics at university and has been practicing astronomy as an amateur for many years. He discovered...
The UVEX by Shelyak : first light By Olivier Garde I had the opportunity to test one of the two prototypes of the UVEX version made by Shelyak Instruments. This version of UVEX differs from the “3D printing” versions already produced by several teams with...
OHP Spectro Star Party 2020 Every year, Association Aude and Shelyak Instruments organize the Spectro Star Party at the Observatoire de Haute Provence, in St Michel l’Observatoire, near Manosque in southern France. The event is canceled for health organization...
TimeBox : to accurately measure an occultation By César VALENCIA-GALLARDO, February 2020 Timing of astronomical occultations and other astronomical phenomena need to be done in an absolute time scale with a precision of a few milliseconds in order to pull and compare...
Demetra 5.1 for Alpy 600 Spectroscopy has never been so simple! By François Cochard, février 2020. Demetra is the software developed by Shelyak Instruments to facilitate the implementation of Alpy 600 spectrograph, from image acquisitions to data reduction. Convinced...
