Hello From Steve Barkes
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:07 pm
A post to get my account going, and access to all of the forum topics. I live in Las Cruces, New Mexico and observe with a couple of roll out scopes in my driveway. I have a SA200, an ALPY 600 and L200. An 8" LX200, 10" Meade SCT on a Losmandy G11, and 130mm Astro Tech apo with a .8x reducer/flattener.
I've been interested in spectroscopy for a while now and have recently retired. So now I will finally be able to pursue it in earnest once the monsoon season is over in the New Mexico desert.
The other night I put the SA200 on an 8" LX200 SCT with 6.3 focal reducer and ZWO ASI178mm camera. As I was gathering some focus images in AstroArt 8, I attempted a plate solve with multiple spectra in the image. To my amazement, AstroArt completed the plate solve in a fraction of a second!! I was going to setup a guidescope/camera combination for pointing, but it seems that won't be necessary for this combo.
Steve Barkes
Las Cruces, NM
I've been interested in spectroscopy for a while now and have recently retired. So now I will finally be able to pursue it in earnest once the monsoon season is over in the New Mexico desert.
The other night I put the SA200 on an 8" LX200 SCT with 6.3 focal reducer and ZWO ASI178mm camera. As I was gathering some focus images in AstroArt 8, I attempted a plate solve with multiple spectra in the image. To my amazement, AstroArt completed the plate solve in a fraction of a second!! I was going to setup a guidescope/camera combination for pointing, but it seems that won't be necessary for this combo.
Steve Barkes
Las Cruces, NM