Bonjour à tous,
Avez vous des astuces pour obtenir la meilleure résolution quand vous montez votre Alpy sur la CCD.
Quelles sont vos méthodes qui marchent ?
Normalement j'arrive à R~530 ; hier j'ai tout démonté pour vérifier des réglage et essayer d'obtenir une meilleur résolution finale, objectif était d'arriver à R~580 mais je n'y suis pas arriver et j'ai plutôt rétrogradé à R~515 !
Impossible de faire mieux.
Ce que je fais pour le régler, je mets le spectro proche d'une lampe à spectre d'émission et je régle pour arriver au détails les plus fin. Ensuite je prends un argon de la lampe de calibrage, puis je fais son spectre avec lui même et là j'obtiens la résolution.
Avez vous des conseils ?
régler son Alpy
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Re: régler son Alpy
Hi Etienne,
I just noticed your post. I have previously used the solar magnesium Fraunhofer lines to tune my Alpy. These are the magnesium b lines, in particular I look at the gap between the b1 line at 5183.6Å and the other merged b lines at 5173.7Å - 5167.3Å. The gap is close to the ~10Å resolution of the Alpy so I change the focus until I find the maximum resolution of the gap. I attach the improvement I made when I last re-tuned my Alpy, the red curve is where I started and the blue curve is where I ended up. I'd be very interested to see your own spectrum of sunlight to see how well you are resolving this gap
Cheers
Hugh
I just noticed your post. I have previously used the solar magnesium Fraunhofer lines to tune my Alpy. These are the magnesium b lines, in particular I look at the gap between the b1 line at 5183.6Å and the other merged b lines at 5173.7Å - 5167.3Å. The gap is close to the ~10Å resolution of the Alpy so I change the focus until I find the maximum resolution of the gap. I attach the improvement I made when I last re-tuned my Alpy, the red curve is where I started and the blue curve is where I ended up. I'd be very interested to see your own spectrum of sunlight to see how well you are resolving this gap
Cheers
Hugh
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Re: régler son Alpy
Hugh, this is a good méthod (and nice tuning)
With LISA, I used the PSF Line function in ISIS (in 1. Image)
on the green bright line of the neon (about 5400)
(always the same line)
FWHM = 1.5 was a good tuning for my setup (LISA + 460EX bin2)
So, you have a *measure* of the tuning
One can also verify how the temperature, orientation of the spectro, ... , lead to changes of the tuning
All the best,
François Teyssier
With LISA, I used the PSF Line function in ISIS (in 1. Image)
on the green bright line of the neon (about 5400)
(always the same line)
FWHM = 1.5 was a good tuning for my setup (LISA + 460EX bin2)
So, you have a *measure* of the tuning
One can also verify how the temperature, orientation of the spectro, ... , lead to changes of the tuning
All the best,
François Teyssier
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Re: régler son Alpy
Hello, thanks for this exchange.
I am also a new user of Alpy and, after the usual presentation, this is my first message on this forum… For sure, it would be a great help to get some simple reference to quickly evaluate the tuning quality. Following Huge’ example above, this what I see on a sunlight spectrum (single image calibrated without instrumental response correction) around 5180A. Its looks not too bad but a quick PSF on the 5852A neon line shows a FWHM at 2 in bin2, still above the expected 1.5 value as described by François… The CCD is an Atik428 , same pixel size as Atik460. Good new, I still have plenty of room for improvement ! Thank again for these images.
Cheers,
Daniel
I am also a new user of Alpy and, after the usual presentation, this is my first message on this forum… For sure, it would be a great help to get some simple reference to quickly evaluate the tuning quality. Following Huge’ example above, this what I see on a sunlight spectrum (single image calibrated without instrumental response correction) around 5180A. Its looks not too bad but a quick PSF on the 5852A neon line shows a FWHM at 2 in bin2, still above the expected 1.5 value as described by François… The CCD is an Atik428 , same pixel size as Atik460. Good new, I still have plenty of room for improvement ! Thank again for these images.
Cheers,
Daniel
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Re: régler son Alpy
Daniel,
On ne peut pas comparer les résultats Alpy et LISA : la résolution typique du LISA est R = 1000
Je pense que FWHM = 2 avec un Alpy est un bon résulat
François
On ne peut pas comparer les résultats Alpy et LISA : la résolution typique du LISA est R = 1000
Je pense que FWHM = 2 avec un Alpy est un bon résulat
François
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Re: régler son Alpy
Merci François pour cet encouragement. Pour un débutant il est difficile de se "calibrer". Quelques indicateurs de références, simples à utiliser, permettent de mieux se situer.
Merci encore de prendre ainsi de ton temps pour des débutants.
Bon ciel,
Daniel
Merci encore de prendre ainsi de ton temps pour des débutants.
Bon ciel,
Daniel
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Re: régler son Alpy
Je viens de re-régler mon Alpy, je penses que la raie MgI est une bonne astuce. J'attends de voir sur une étoile ce que ça donne sur la résolutin chiffrée (R = ?)