Building a CCD Spectrograph for Educational or Amateur Astronomy | Zendy

Sheila J. Kannappan | Zendy; Daniel G. Fabricant | Zendy; Charles B. Hughes | Zendy

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Building a CCD Spectrograph for Educational or Amateur Astronomy

Author(s) -

Sheila J. Kannappan,

Daniel G. Fabricant,

Charles B. Hughes

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

publications of the astronomical society of the pacific

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.294

H-Index - 172

eISSN - 1538-3873

pISSN - 0004-6280

DOI - 10.1086/341678

Subject(s) - spectrograph , telescope , physics , amateur , optics , astronomy , first light , light source , spectral line , political science , law

We discuss the design of an inexpensive, high-throughput CCD spectrograph fora small telescope. By using optical fibers to carry the light from thetelescope focus to a table-top spectrograph, one can minimize the weightcarried by the telescope and simplify the spectrograph design. We recentlyemployed this approach in the construction of IntroSpec, an instrument builtfor the 16-inch Knowles Telescope on the Harvard College campus.

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