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Rainbow Optics offers 2 spectroscopes: a two-piece Visual / Photo / CCD model and a one-piece Visual model.


Star Spectroscope: Visual / Photo / CCD, $249

A description of the two-piece spectroscope can be found on the Design Page.

 
The two-piece Visual / Photo / CCD Star Spectroscope


Accessories for the Visual / Photo / CCD Star Spectroscope

Spacer, $10
This is an empty grating cell. It can be placed between the grating cell and the eyepiece, to increase the spectrum length (dispersion). Multiple spacers can be stacked. These spacers are most useful with telescopes that cannot use the star diagonal technique described below. You may want to wait until you have used the spectroscope a while and have read the Owner's Manual, before buying any spacers. Also, if you have any 1.25-inch color filters, you can remove the glass and use the empty filter cells as spacers.

1.25-inch Threaded Star Diagonal, $49
Page 7 of the spectroscope Owner's Manual describes an optional technique of screwing the grating cell into the star diagonal of a f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain. This will give a nicely proportioned spectrum when used with an eyepiece of about 26mm focal length. This setup is also useful with slow focal-ratio refractors. But if your brand of star diagonal is not threaded for 1.25-inch filters, you can use this star diagonal. Or if your f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain is equipped with a 2-inch star diagonal that has a 2-inch to 1.25-inch reducer, you can rotate the 2-inch diagonal 90 degrees and then plug this 1.25-inch diagonal into the reducer.


Star Spectroscope: Visual, $199

This instrument is for visual spectroscopy with 1.25-inch and .96-inch eyepieces. It fits eyepieces with an eye-end diameter of 1.5-inch or less. This is typical of most Plossls, Kellners, and orthoscopics. This spectroscope looks just like the lens cell of the two-piece spectroscope described in the Design page but it contains both optical elements: a spectrum-widening lens and a high-performance, glass, blazed diffraction grating. The grating is different than the one used in the grating cell of the two-piece spectroscope because it is positioned on top of the eyepiece instead of below. Spectrum length is fixed and spectrum width is adjustable. This spectroscope is a bit easier to set up than the two-piece model.


The one-piece Visual Star Spectroscope

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