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After so many months, I finally finish to build my spectrohelioscope. I have been fully inspire from the one build by a french man Daniel Defourneau : http://www.astrosurf.com/cieldelabrie/sphelio.htm

it is composed from the following parts

a 60mm F15lens
a adjustable slit from surplus shed
a 70/400 telescope
a 2400l 30x30 diffraction grating from www.optometrics.com
a 70/210 lens





For the moment the optical part is finish but unfortunately weather was not good enough to test it...

Next step is to connect the webcam and try to compose properly the pictures (see you at least within 6 months...)

Finally I'm thinking to protect it from the light with a metallized plastic


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Congratulations. :hamster: Randy


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Hi Vincent

what a great gear. Congratulations on that set up. I'm eagar to see the first light


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Thanks Vincent
This looks very interesting & something I can do I hope.
I have been interested & made a few spectroscopes before so this will be carrying on to the next level.
Look forwards to your pictures soon.
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That looks like lots of fun! Well done there! :)


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Hi again Vincent
I have a Surplus Shed adjustable slit & I am interested to know what the tubing is you have joined it too & how it was achieved Please.
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Col,
The "body" of the surplus shed slit assembly will fit neatly into a T thread spacer adaptor (I used a 15mm male/female) You just need to grind the inside diameter out by 0.5mm or so and cut a slot for the adjusting screw...
Then you could use standard T thread extension pieces between the slit and the collimating lens.
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(A laser collimator pointed squarely through the slit gap will quickly allow you to set and collimate the optics....)


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Thanks Ken
So you cut a slot for the chrome spring retainer plate & open up the inside bore of the 15mm T2 extension by 0.5mm ?
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Yes, that's it!
I have some sketches somewhere if you need them.
I use this arrangement in the MG80 concept spectroscope.


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Hi again Vincent
I have a Surplus Shed adjustable slit & I am interested to know what the tubing is you have joined it too & how it was achieved Please.
Col

otherwise in my case I found a copper plumbing tube that is 22mm inside and 24mm outside. After I use a 0.956" (24.5mm) focuser and that's it!

First try show that this slit is too small compare with the 900mm front lens focal.... :unsure:


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Hmmm
I'm not sure what you mean by the slit being too small...can you explain?
Also, the slit jaws should be mounted such that the square edge is towards the sun and the beveled edge towards the grating.....


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Thanks Ken
I will look at the MG80 closer too.
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The Surplus Shed slit is advertised to be 10mm long, the solar image from a 900mm FL objective is 8.33mm diameter. You are probably vignetting due to the lack of a field lens at the slit, a 275mm focal length lens immediately before or after the slit will image the objective onto the grating and eliminate this problem.


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After a so bad beginning of spring and some soft problem, I finally achieve something! :hamster:



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That image looks good...congrats on the project starting to pan out.

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Hi Vincent

congratulations on that first light :thumbsup:


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Beaut to see it coming together.
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:hamster: excellent!!

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the sun 1h ago, but with bad focus....



really not easy, so many parameters....


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Hi Vincent

that is still a shot. Keep on the good work


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great - I plan to do this this summer

what software r u using to build slit images


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I know 3 soft :

IRIS : http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/us/chromo/chromo.htm

spechelio, a french one : http://www.astrosurf.com/cieldelabrie/sphelio.htm

And finally ERS, an other french one, that I'm using : http://labovette.free.fr/ers.htm


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thx
but for ers where is download button?


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where it's written "telechargement ERS" on the upper left corner


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After 3 months with a terrible weather I could finally try again my baby :
I slightly improve treatment but still not perfect (if anyone know how to remove those lines...)
Improve focus in Ha (but not in Cak) : next step is to do it perfectly
I also protect from light all optical part to improve contrast.

Here are the results :





and first trial in Cak but with an ejection! :hamster: :



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Well done! a great achievement :bow: the contrast on the filaments is amazing.

I can't help with the lines though ;)

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Cool stuff!


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Which camera are you using?
The processing/ camera combo I think is the issue.
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Hi Vincent

a great step forward


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Hi Vincent.

You're making great progress with the images! This is encouraging as I will be bringing my own spectrohelioscope into operation this summer ... soon, hopefully!

As far as the horizontal banding on your images goes, you could address the problem with image processing. The image processing package ImageJ has a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) bandpass filter which allows very simple reduction / removal of stripes in an image. This would most likely go a long way to eliminating the problem ... but it doesn't address the source of the problem for which I can't make any suggestions at the moment.

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Wow!!!!!!!! Congratulations on a great looking gear. That's awesome!


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Hi Vincent.

Just for fun, I downloaded one of your latest images and processed it a little in ImageJ (and some PhotoShop).
Here is the result.


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hey not too bad!

I found that it's a real processing issue coming from the soft. Could be that I found the solution, but my week end issue was the focus. I really need to improve this latest point!

What type of spectro are you going to build?


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Hi Vincent.

The design is rather typical, similar principle to yours, based on Christian Buil's ideas. In my case, I found a Czerny-Turner spectrograph which I have modified to use, basically as a grating holder! The basic components are:

Telescope: 100mm f/10 (Rubinar mirror-lens) with front mount ERF (UV-IR cut).
Collimator: 300mmfl telephoto (Pentax M42 mount)
Entrance Slit: 25 micron x 25mm long (Jarrel-Ash)
Grating: Edmund Optics 1800 or 2400 lines/mm, 30mm x 30mm.
Camera Lens: 135mmfl (Pentax M42 mount) (longer fl for higher magnification can be used)

I expect a resolution of 0.35 angstroms (2400 l/mm grating) or 0.47 angstroms (1800 l/mm) and a solar image diameter of 4.2mm (on a 1/3" ccd). Slit image on the ccd will be 11.25 microns, so slightly oversampled with 4.54 micron pixels.

Everything is constructed and nearly ready to go. I am waiting for one adapter (!) to assemble and test.
I'll post pictures once I begin testing.

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Peter,
A great project!
I've run your data through SimSpec V4....
A 30 x 30 grating will be vignetted with both the 1800 and 2400 l/mm.
Your dispersion looks like 0.2A/pixel, (depending on the camera) and resolution of 0.7A.
Look forward to seeing the set-up.

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Hi Ken.

Thanks for your comments and the spreadsheet!

You're right about the vignetting, but it is fairly minimal and will affect light throughput more than spectral resolution (for a 25 micron slit). With the 1000mmfl (f/10) telescope and the 300mmfl collimator, an exit pupil diameter of 33.3mm will be imaged on to the 30x30mm grating - not too much of a loss.

I've just begun to look through the spreadsheet and notice that the incident angle (57.2 deg) used there is rather large. My configuration is somewhat different than Buil's and will allow smaller incident / diffraction angles (and, consequently, an anamorphic factor closer to 1). Also, the camera in the spreadsheet has 6.45 micron pixels as opposed to the DMK camera's 4.54 micron pixels. These factors might account for the discrepancies between some of our numbers.

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Peter,
Re the vignetting...the height of the grating is close, but the width requirement (cell G24) is the one to watch. Obviously light loss is not a major factor for solar!
The total angle (G18) comes down to the spacing of the collimator/ imaging lens and when larger lenses are involved either increased distances to the grating or increased angles. Only a Littrow configuration (Like Fulvio Mete's layout) will give a balanced anamorphic factor.
The drop down list of cameras has the DMK listed - increases sampling but not resolution..
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Hi Ken.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, my spectrometer is built around a Czerny-Turner spectroscope, so maybe I shouldn't have mentioned Christian Buil. I've attached a schematic of the basic C-T portion. There are 3 (plane) fold mirrors to illuminate the grating and redirect the diffracted light. I don't have the same issue with physical interference of the collimator and imaging lenses that Buil's design has - not as severe, anyway.

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Peter,
I think I now understand....
I assume M1,M2 and M3 are plane, front surface mirrors.
The 300mm collimating lens feeds M1
The dispersed beam from the grating reflects of M2 and M3 to the 135mm imaging lens.
Certainly the total angle is reduced - say, 10 degrees...
With the indicated spacing (200mm approx from grating to M2) M2 needs to be around 45mm and M3 about 55mm


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To Peter: normally you would not need a front mounted ERF for a spectrograph as the slit would attenuate the energy. For example, with a focal length of 700mm (assuming 100mm diameter and f7), the diameter of the sun on the slit would be 700/107 = 6.54mm. A 20 micron slit would attenuate by a factor of over 300. A huge amount of light is then lost on its way through the spectrometer. The only issue if your choice of a mirror lens, which would necessitate the ERF. A different choice of front optics (a refractor telescope or normal camera lens) might be better.


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Hello to "thesmiths".

The problem with my configuration is the use of a catadioptric lens (Rubinar) which has a cemented lens group near the output. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be able to tolerate the excessive solar heat load. If I configure the system for use with a simple refractor, then I would dispense with the erf.

Nice work on your solar spectroscopy, by the way! Do you notice heating of the slit in your system?

Cheers.
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(I think I should start a new thread pretty soon. I feel like this one has been hijacked form the original poster! I've just assembled my system and will begin testing shortly. I'll post pictures in a new thread.)


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;) from my side I never detect a high temperature on the slit...


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To Peter (you've definitely hijacked this post!): no heating of the slit noticeable. The Thorlabs slit I have is for use with high power lasers and is rated at 1 KW per square mm. As it turns out, the power density of the sun's image does not increase with focal length, only with F ratio. At a constant F ratio, an increase of the lens diameter (how much energy is collected) is balanced by the magnification of the sun's image (how much the energy is spread out). If E is the sun's energy in W per square meter, the energy at the slit is proportional to E divided by F squared. If E is measured in W per square meter, and the intensity at the slit is measured in mW per square mm, the proportionality constant is 11.53 (so if E is 1000W per square meter and the lens if F4, the intensity at the slit is 11.53x1000/16 = 720mW per square mm). This is quite small compared to what the slits are rated for. But of course the 1000W per square meter is only 1 mW per square mm so it is 720 times more intense than natural sunlight.


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After a terrible winter, I finally could try my SHS V2

Indeed, previous one was mechanically a disaster and focus diificult to manage. Now it's much better but still not perfect....

Previous soft was not stable too, and thanks to wahh, it's now 100% solve. Thanks!!!!! :bow

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That's an excellent image!


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Hi Vincent

that is a good result after the winter break


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:band2 :band :band2 well done! that is a fabulous picture :bow

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That is great! I can even see the prominence!


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thanks :bow


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