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The links below document some of my   spectrographic results obtained to date. The latest are at the top



Link to my page on the BAA website

Link to list of transients classified in TNS using ALPY 200/600 March 2016 onward

ALPY 200 - Two mag 17.5 supernovae spectra - ASASSN 15fa, ASASSN 15fz   April 2015                                                                          

ALPY 200 - SN 2014AS in NGC 5410 (mag ~16.5)    April 2014                                                                          

STAR ANALYSER - T TAURI STAR CAMPAIGN 2012-13

LHIRES III - AZ CAS ECLIPSE AND PERIASTRON CAMPAIGN 2012-13

LHIRES III - EPSILON AURIGAE ECLIPSE CAMPAIGN 2009-11

LHIRES III - WR140 Periastron Campaign  finished March 2009

STAR ANALYSER - Be Star V831 Cas (Vmag 11.3) September 2008

STAR ANALYSER - Be Star BD +55 521 (Vmag 10.6) September 2008

STAR ANALYSER - HD 216629 and the feasibility of detecting Be star activity September 2008

STAR ANALYSER - QR Vul and the feasibility of detecting Be star activity September 2008

STAR ANALYSER - RED STAR CLASSIFICATION (poster paper presented at VdS conference Heidelberg May 2008)

LHIRES III  - Radial Velocity measurements of eclipsing binary Beta Aurigae February 2008

SLIT/EYEPIECE/STAR ANALYSER  Comet 17P Holmes  Nov 2007

LHIRES III  - SPECTROSCOPY WORKSHOP (Observatoire Haute Provence) August 2007

STAR ANALYSER and LHIRES III Nova Vul 07  August 2007 

STAR ANALYSER Type 1a Supernova sn2007af in NGC 5584  March 2007 

STAR ANALYSER Var Cas 06 (GSC3656-1328) a gravitational microlensing event? Nov 2006 

LHIRES III first light in Spectroheliograph mode  20th Aug 2006 

LHIRES III first light – High res Solar spectrum, Low res Vega, Doppler rotation measurement of Saturn  5th May 2006 

THE RESULTS BELOW ARE ALL LOW RESOLUTION PRODUCED USING THE STAR ANALYSER AND SIMILAR GRATINGS 

Total Solar Eclipse 29th Mar 2006

Outburst of SDSS J080434.20+510349.2 5th Mar 2006

Comet C/2006 A1 (Pojmanski) 4th Mar 2006

Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchus 18th Feb 2006

Experiments using Baader Astrosolar film 26th Jan 2006

QSO APM 08279 +05255 - 3.87 RED SHIFT 28th Dec 2005

 SEYFERT GALAXY UGC 545 RED SHIFT 24th Nov 2005

Low dispersion spectrum of a PERSEID METEOR 13th Aug 2005

Emission line stars P CYGNI and BETA LYRAE with EP Projection & slit 8th July 2005

NOVA V1663Aql with EP Projection & slit 8th July 2005

SUPERNOVA sn2005cs in M51 and MIZAR with EP Projection & slit 2nd July, 4th July, 8th Aug 2005

TESTING AN EYEPIECE PROJECTION DESIGN WITH A SLIT (VENUS IN DAYLIGHT, M57 IN TWILIGHT) 27th June 2005

TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA sn2005cf 8th June 2005

PROTOTYPE FILTER GRATING -M57 and TYC-2643-823-1 30th May 2005

PROTOTYPE 1.25 inch FILTER CELL MOUNTED GRATING - DELTA VIRGINIS 14th May 2005

NOVA V378 SERPENTIS 9th April 2005 11th Apr 2005

SKY at NIGHT STAR PARTY TARGETS 11-12th March 2005 4th Apr 2005

TYC-1960-1272-1 An IR emitter 20th Mar 2005

COMET MACHHOLZ SPECTRUM 2nd Jan 2005

SOME STELLAR SPECTRA IN ORION 2nd Dec 2004

TYPE II SUPERNOVA sn2004et 30th Sept, 9th Oct 2004

SS433 THE "LAWNSPRINKLER" STAR 16th August 2004

TYPE II SUPERNOVA sn2004dj SPECTRUM 8,13th August 2004

VEGA SPECTRUM WITH IR PASS FILTER 12th June 2004

COMET Q4 NEAT SPECTRUM 16th,22nd May 2004

MEASURING QSO 3C 273 REDSHIFT 25th April 2004

WOLF RAYET STAR SPECTRA 17th April 2004

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TO IR BLOCK FILTER COMPARISON

TO FILTER TESTS

TO FIRST LIGHT SPECTRA (Bright stars and planets)

 

 

 

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