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Beta Lyrae – Shelyak !
Beta Lyrae - Shelyak ! Well... beta Lyrae is a special star for us as its arabic name is Shelyak, the origin of the Shelyak Instruments company name. Few years ago, we spent couple of week studying this star spectroscopically. This is a Be star (see article about this...
Be stars
Be stars Recommended equipment : Lhires III, eShel, Lisa, Alpy Time : one evening to a life time ! Abstract Classical Be stars are non supergiant B-type stars that exhibit or have exhibit emission lines over the photospheric spectrum. This article review common...
Beta Aurigae spectroscopic binary
Beta Aurigae spectroscopic binary Recommended equipment : Lhires III, eShel Time : several observing nights Summary Grâce à la haute résolution du Lhires III, il est possible de séparer de nombreuses étoiles binaires spectroscopiques. Ces étoiles, qui n'apparaissent...
RV (Radial Velocity)
RV (Radial Velocity) Recommended equipment : eShel, Lhires III Time : 1 h Stars are moving into space and their spectra appear shifted compared to the same lines in laboratory. Exemple here is SAO104807 which is moving toward us at a speed of 100 km/Sec and SAP112958...
Lithium star : 59 Vir
Lithium star : 59 Vir Recommended equipment : eShel, Lhires III Time : one evening (acquisition) 59 Vir is a G0V type star, close to solar spectral type. But its spectrum display a stroing Li I (6708) absorption line. This star is rather young and lithium will...
Measure star temperature
Measure star temperature Recommended equipment : Lhires III, eShel, Lisa, Alpy, Star Analyser Time : 4h French philosopher Auguste Compte (1798-1857) became very famous when he wrote in 1835 about stars: "... we will never know, by any mean, chemical composition of...
Spectral classification (high resolution)
Spectral classification (high resolution) Recommended equipment : Lhires III, eShel Durée : 1 night Introduction Low resolution spectroscopy allows to classify stars and measure their effective temperature. But this method is limited and hgih resolution spectroscopy...
Spectral classification (low resolution)
Spectral classification (low resolution) Recommended equipment : Lhires III, Star Analyser, Alpy, LISA, eShel Time : 1 night Spectroscopy is a great tool to compare stars between themselves and determine their spectral class - thus their effective temperature. In low...
Planet’s rotation
Planet's rotation Recommended equipment : Lhires III, eShel Time : one evening (acquisition), 4h (analysis in group) Introduction Doppler-Fizeau effect is particularly visible on Jupiter or Saturn spectra taken with Lhires III. One spectrum os Jupiter is enough to...
Sodium in all its states !
Sodium in all its states ! Recommended equipment : Lhires III, eShel Time : 1h Sodium element has a nice spectral signature with two narrow lines in the yellow. Those lines, D1 & D2, are at wavelength 589.00nm and 589.59nm, split by about 6 angstroems only. You...
Atmospheric sodium
Atmospheric sodium Recommended equipment : Lhires III, Lisa , Alpy Time : about 1h (at sunset) 80km above our head is an atmospheric layer with sodium excited by our Sun. During the day, it is not visible as the solar spectrum is too bright. During the night, this...
Solar spectrum (visual)
Solar spectrum (visual) Recommended equipment: Lhires III, Lhires Lite Time: 1h It works every time: anyone watching the solar spectra in hig resolution enjoy it -it is magical! and it's easy: you just have to direct the Lhires III, without a telescope, directly...