Spectroscopy

1st meteor spectrum from OHP 2017

OHP spectroscopy workshop

Each year, Association Aude and Shelyak Instruments organize the Spectro Star Party at the Observatoire de Haute Provence, in St Michel l’Observatoire, near Manosque in southern France.
http://www.shelyak.com/contenu.php?id_contenu=147&id_dossier=7

The location

The equipment

The video camera equipped with a 600 l/mm grating in the green box, at the side of the observation field. In the background the 120 cm telescope

Getting ready for the night

Participants of the workshop


(credit: Olivier Garde)

The astrophysics course by Steve Shore

The raw spectrum

(peak image)

M20170723_221240_OHP_2.mp4

processed linear spectrum

The calibrated spectrum