Equipment Setup
The equipment for spectroscopy is very similar to astrophotography
- Take care that the mount with the telescope and spectrograph is in balance
- Take care that the power supply and the USB cable not interfere while moving the telescope
- Preparing the mount with good polar aligment
- An electronic finder, a 50mm scope with a little CMOS camera is very helpful
- The slit of the spectrograph is oriented to RA or DE axis
Software during recording :
- Carte du Ciel to find objects
- Firecapture for electronic finder
- Artemis (Atik) and AstroArt (ASI1600 MM) for image recording
- PHD-2 for Guiding ( Slit position is markable)
- BASS Project for quick look at the spectrum
Setup 200mm Newton f/4 and Alpy600 Spectrograph
Carte du Ciel for finding objects.
EQ5/6 Mod ASCOM Driver
Telescope controler as software solution
PHD-2 Guiding window with markable slit position and the green cross with the guiding star.
Artimes capture program for Atik 414 camera