Hello from Albert in the United Sates
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 3:51 pm
Greetings All
I live outside Arizona. I do not have a permanent Observatory so do most of my observing in the desert for a week during the Dark of the Moon. While we have over 300 clear days a year, the weather gods have chosen to schedule the clouds in conjunction with the new moon the last couple of years limiting my observing. I move North, just outside Flagstaff at 6500 feet, during the Monsoon season but have no southern exposure and few days with clear skies.
I was introduced to Spectroscopy by the late Jeff Hopkins and acquired his Alpy 600 with a guide module which I use with a C-8 @ f6.3 and a CGE mount. I have upgraded the science camera to an ATIK 414 for the greater cooling and a lodestar for guiding.
I primarily use Rspec for its ease of use, but began looking for software that did it all. My SNR seemed to vary greatly based on the software I used for reduction. I have tried ISIS, but find the file naming requirements impractical so have now been trying Bass Project.
I've wandered about looking for targets of interest with any particular direction. Seems most of the projects are only interested in high resolution. Recently I became aware of the BeSS catalog of star with a sub list of low resolutions stars, so I'll be looking for projects that I can contribute to.
I live outside Arizona. I do not have a permanent Observatory so do most of my observing in the desert for a week during the Dark of the Moon. While we have over 300 clear days a year, the weather gods have chosen to schedule the clouds in conjunction with the new moon the last couple of years limiting my observing. I move North, just outside Flagstaff at 6500 feet, during the Monsoon season but have no southern exposure and few days with clear skies.
I was introduced to Spectroscopy by the late Jeff Hopkins and acquired his Alpy 600 with a guide module which I use with a C-8 @ f6.3 and a CGE mount. I have upgraded the science camera to an ATIK 414 for the greater cooling and a lodestar for guiding.
I primarily use Rspec for its ease of use, but began looking for software that did it all. My SNR seemed to vary greatly based on the software I used for reduction. I have tried ISIS, but find the file naming requirements impractical so have now been trying Bass Project.
I've wandered about looking for targets of interest with any particular direction. Seems most of the projects are only interested in high resolution. Recently I became aware of the BeSS catalog of star with a sub list of low resolutions stars, so I'll be looking for projects that I can contribute to.
