Stellar spectroscopy with CCDs - some preliminary results
Abstract
The appeal of CCDs is speed - getting instant results (like the visual observer) and supreme sensitivity. Although the CCD user may now have a permanent record to tweak at leisure, nothing compares to that initial view. When coupled to a simple prism innocuous points of starlight give up their secrets in real-time. A technique of using an objective prism before a reflecting telescope with a CCD detector to record stellar spectra is described and some results explained. The spectral sensitivity of the camera can be tested as a byproduct.
- Publication:
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Journal of the British Astronomical Association
- Pub Date:
- February 1996
- Bibcode:
- 1996JBAA..106...11G
- Keywords:
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- AMATEUR SPECTROSCOPY;
- CCD