Spectroscopy at events

[Sol-Skysailor]

Hello People with skills in spectroscopy,

As an idea to promote interests in spectroscopy, if you’re planning to attend events, such as the upcoming CWAS Jul, Qld Astrofest Jul-Aug, national science week Aug, or Vic South Oct-Nov 2016, or any event really, would you consider demonstrating or even just discussing spectroscopy please?

(Suggestion, for a demo: visual-spectra first then any imaging. Some possibilities of topics are outlined under Star Parties.... Events: http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?p=1254277#post125427 7 )

So that more of us stargazers and the public can attend, it would be really great if you would please make any such demo known early and widely.

Would running selected videos be helpful also? (Are these effective: https://youtu.be/Fv5fFSacVO8 from Tom Field July 2016, Different Types of Spectra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IMJglnz2Uw P E Robinson 2013, or would you produce one or recommend any others?)

Hopefully the event organisers would help in raising awareness of this technique that is fundamental to astronomy.

Thank you!
Regards
Sol

[Terry B]

Good idea but I don't plan on attending any of the star parties in the near future. There aren't many of us that use spectrographs so it is a limited choice of people that could participate.

[GOTO]

Sydney Observatory plans to have a small 150mm newtonian at Sydney Uni's Astrofest tomorrow night...weather permitting. Will be using RSpec, ZWOASI120MC-S and Star Analyser 100.
Cheers
Geoff

[markbakovic]

not technically spectroscopy but... i'll see if i can make a case for a public demo of one of our spectrographs at the MQ astronomy open night next year, but there'd be no "visual spectra" and it'd probably require more patience than the public care to donate...