[ATM] Re: ATM Spectroscopy and fiber optic info needed

[mpeck1 at ix.netcom.com (Michael Peck)]

At 11:54 20-01-04 -0600, jsgrmfg@gracemfg.com wrote:
>     Yes, I've found this site and a number of others but my necessarily
>hurried survey of these sites
>has not revealed much information about fiber optic spectrographs.  Several
>        sites mention that
>such things exist (the idea certainly wasn't original with me!) but don't
>        offer the kind of nitty gritty
>mechanical and optical details that would allow me to design and build one
>        with a reasonable
>hope of success.

I thought I had seen an article or journal paper describing an amateur 
buildable spectrograph, and sure enough here's a link to the preprint 
version: <http://www.arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0202/0202233.pdf>. The 
article was published in the May 2002 Publications of the ASP.

This seems to do pretty much what you want, namely use a fiber train to 
feed a table top spectrograph. The article gives part numbers and details 
of machining techniques.

Mike Peck


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