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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Spectroscopy - once the sole province of professionals - is becoming more and more popular with amateur astronomers. Various instruments, at prices to suit everyone, are already available "off the shelf". Practical Amateur Spectroscopy contains everything you need to understand the basic principles, to begin observing, and to interpret what the spectra you have seen or recorded show and mean. Contributions by leading practical amateurs from America and Europe cover a very wide range of amateur equipment and techniques. There are descriptions of all kinds of instrument, ranging from simple do-it-yourself projects like a direct-vision star spectroscope, to imaging with commercially made spectrographs.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

-Acknowledgements/Photographs and Drawings.

-Contents.

-Introduction.

-Section 1. Fundamentals of Spectroscopy.

1. Development of Stellar Spectroscopy.
2. Gases and Spectra.
3. Spectroscopes.
4. The Spectral Classification of Stars.

-Section 2. Practical Amateur Spectroscopy.

5. The CD Spectroscope. 
6. Photographing and Analyzing the Spectra of Stars.
7. Two Spectrographs for Small Telescopes.
8. Amateur Astronomical Spectroscopy with Some Commercial Spectrographs.
9. Astronomical Spectroscopy with the Santa Barbara Instrument Group Self-Guiding Spectrometer.
10. Building and Using a High-Precision Radial Velocity Spectrograph.

-Appendix 1. Suppliers of Spectrographs.

-Appendix 2. Useful Websites.

-Appendix 3. Selected Bibliography.

-Appendix 4. The Contributors.

-Index.