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Flat field, aberration corrected, concave gratings

Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 5:20 pm
by Andrew Smith
As per the title has any one any experience of building and or designing astronomical spectrographs with flat field, aberration corrected, concave gratings. They do seem to offer a compact solution with minimal additional components.

I am aware of the Starlight Xpress spectrograph and have looked at the information available on the net.

Regards Andrew

Re: Flat field, aberration corrected, concave gratings

Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 1:19 am
by Robin Leadbeater
Hi Andrew,

I dont know what aberrations it is supposed to correct but the examples from SX spectrograph show terrible astigmatism and perhaps might benefit from The UVEX cylindrical lens ?

Re: Flat field, aberration corrected, concave gratings

Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 8:40 am
by Andrew Smith
It depends on the details but it can include astigmatism, coma and spherical aberrations. I suspect they get more expensive the better the correction.

I don't think one implementation should necessarily condem them. I might have a play now the rest of my kit is out of reach!

Regards Andrew