Paton Hawksley Spectroscope StarAnalyser 100 - blazed diffraction grating for spectroscopy

Paton Hawksley Spectroscope Star Analyser 100
In professional astronomy, spectral analysis has been the means of choice for researching stars, nebulae, novae, comets and much more for over 100 years. With the Star Analyser, Paton Hawksley now offers a very inexpensive and easy to use system, which is aimed especially at amateur astronomers, observatories, schools and the general entry into the fascinating field of spectroscopy.

The Star Analyser is simply mounted like a 1.25" filter in front of a camera. In principle, any camera can be used for this purpose. For example, it is possible to use a telescope with an aperture of 80 mm and an unmodified webcam to spectroscopically capture stars up to the 4th magnitude. With 8" aperture and a sensitive astro CCD camera, hundreds of deep-sky objects are at your disposal to explore. Even the redshift of quasars can be detected in this way!

Tips from Teleskop-Service:
In principle, any telescope is suitable for spectroscopy. Reflector systems (like Newtonians and Cassegrain systems) as well as refractors with low chromatic aberration are ideal. With so-called rich-field achromats, however, a little caution is required, since their own color errors can make the spectrum obsolete.

For cameras with an integrated IR cut filter, please note that this cuts off the long-wave part of the spectrum. With pure reflector telescopes no IR cut filter is necessary anyway, this can therefore be removed.

When using it visually, please note that the Star Analyser 100 fans out the spectrum less than the Star Analyser 200, making it appear brighter. Therefore it is usually more suitable for this application. But the latter has a higher resolution and needs only half the distance in photographic use.


Item condition: new and original packed



Paton Hawksley Spectroscope Star Analyser 100
In professional astronomy, spectral analysis has been the means of choice for researching stars, nebulae, novae, comets and much more for over 100 years. With the Star Analyser, Paton Hawksley now offers a very inexpensive and easy to use system, which is aimed especially at amateur astronomers, observatories, schools and the general entry into the fascinating field of spectroscopy.

The Star Analyser is simply mounted like a 1.25" filter in front of a camera. In principle, any camera can be used for this purpose. For example, it is possible to use a telescope with an aperture of 80 mm and an unmodified webcam to spectroscopically capture stars up to the 4th magnitude. With 8" aperture and a sensitive astro CCD camera, hundreds of deep-sky objects are at your disposal to explore. Even the redshift of quasars can be detected in this way!

Tips from Teleskop-Service:
In principle, any telescope is suitable for spectroscopy. Reflector systems (like Newtonians and Cassegrain systems) as well as refractors with low chromatic aberration are ideal. With so-called rich-field achromats, however, a little caution is required, since their own color errors can make the spectrum obsolete.

For cameras with an integrated IR cut filter, please note that this cuts off the long-wave part of the spectrum. With pure reflector telescopes no IR cut filter is necessary anyway, this can therefore be removed.

When using it visually, please note that the Star Analyser 100 fans out the spectrum less than the Star Analyser 200, making it appear brighter. Therefore it is usually more suitable for this application. But the latter has a higher resolution and needs only half the distance in photographic use.


Item condition: new and original packed