1 Sep, 2020 | News, Projects
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...
10 Feb, 2020 | News, Technics
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...
24 Jan, 2020 | News, Technics
How to choose your autoguiding camera in 2020 ? By Olivier Garde & François Cochard In astronomical spectroscopy, guiding camera is an important element, since it’s what makes it possible to point the right target (star, nebula, etc.), then to ensure precise...
13 Oct, 2019 | News, Projects
The Whoppshel in action on a 60 cm telescope By Olivier Garde The Hubert Reeves observatory in Mars (Ardèche – south of France)(Copyright photo : Olivier Garde) The Whoppshel spectrograph has been designed for telescopes of 0.6 to 1m in diameter class (or even...
23 Sep, 2019 | News, Projects
Demetra : a new version is available By François Cochard and Olivier Garde During the last spectro party at OHP this summer (August 2019), Many of you used Demetra software with your Alpy 600 spectrograph. You gave us some suggestions on this occasion (you also...
17 Jul, 2019 | News, Projects
How I go about planning the acquisition and logging of a stellar spectra ? By Forrest Sims Forrest Sims observes from his garden observatory in Gilbert Arizona. Having only bought his first telescope 5 years ago, Forrest was late to the astronomy party. Classical...
4 Jun, 2019 | News, Projects
Study of a spectroscopic binary with amateur setup By David Antao David Antao started astronomy in 2001. In 2002 and 2003 he passed the CNED university diplomas, in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Long observer in visual, he begin spectroscopy in 2008, a field he knows...
9 Apr, 2019 | News, Projects
A compact telescope shelterBy Olivier Garde & François Cochard The open shelter (photo : François Cochard) Having a fixed installation is a dream for many astronomers, amateurs as well as professionals. This is particularly the case in spectroscopy, because the...
28 Mar, 2019 | News, Projects
Spectroscopy Workshop SMSW-2 By Olivier Garde The second edition of the spectroscopy workshop SMSW-2 “Sacramento Mountains Spectroscopy Workshop”, was held in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on February 22nd, 23rd et 24th 2019 in the beautiful setting of...
8 Feb, 2019 | News, Projects
Magnitude 17 with a LISA By Olivier Garde During a planetary nebula confirmation mission, we were able to use a LISA spectrograph on a 1m telescope, the T1m “Epsilon” of the C2PU. The C2PU has 2 twin telescopes. One is named Omicron (West dome) and the...
14 Jan, 2019 | News, Projects, Technics
The Whoppshel, a high resolution echelle spectroscopeBy Olivier Garde The Whoppshel was born from the demand of our customers to have a higher resolution echelle spectroscope than the eShel for telescopes of one meter class. The whoppshel, with a resolution R = 30000,...
19 Nov, 2018 | News, Technics
Nowadays, it is more and more frequent to remote control our telescopes. It brings some comfort but also a better quality of observation – because the less we touch the instrument, the less we risk to break the tuning. It is particularly true in spectroscopy....
