Advice on spectroscopy equipment

Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Wed, 05/18/2022 - 22:28

Hello everyone, I'm Sauro Gaudenzi, I'm also a city scientist who collaborates with several projects of the zooniverse.org platform and exactly with Disk Detective, Planet Hunters Tess, Supernova Hunters, and others but in a minor way, now my question is this: I place a Skywatcher Evostar 72/420 apochromatic telescope, a Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i wifi astrotracker, a canon eos 1100d modified fullspectrum and an unmodified one,  a zwo asi 224mc, a teleguide, perhaps adding a filter for spectrography (type Star Analyser SA-100 or other type of filter), with this configuration it is possible to calculate or observe the spectrometry of a YSO? Thank you very much for your cooperation

Affiliation
British Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section (BAA-VSS)
YSO with a Star Analyser

It depends exactly what you are trying to measure but it is possible to study transients of YSO at low resolution with a Star Analyser. I talked about this at the 2018 BAA/AAVSO conference. You can see the video here where there is an example of a transient in a T Tauri star

https://britastro.org/videos/pushing-the-limits-using-commercial-spectrographs-2

BAA member Andrew Smith has also been doing some similar  work using a Star Analyser based system on flare stars eg

https://britastro.org/observations/user.php?user=5132

A cooled mono astro camera would be much better for this kind of work than your colour cameras though

Cheers

Robin