Questar Corporation
of New Hope, Pennsylvania, is pleased to announce the world's
first, Maximum-Resolution Solar Spectrometer 
TM capable of fitting
comfortably in the palm of a hand. Questar's Maximum-Resolution
Solar Spectrometer attaches easily to any telescope that, according
to its manufacturer, is compatible with solar observation and
that has a 1.25" drawtube. The Questar Maximum-Resolution Solar
Spectrometer blocks ultraviolet and infrared radiation while allowing
the sun's visible light, the visible solar spectrum, to be viewed
in true and gorgeous color.
Questar's
revolutionary, Maximum-Resolution Solar Spectrometer is the first,
compact telescope accessory in the world with which amateur astronomers
and science educators alike can visualize an ongoing effect of
the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle using a telescope of table-top
size.
The accurate,
highly reproducible, wavelength-measuring ability of the TM permits amateur astronomers
and science educators to locate and observe the discovery line
of Helium gas, the lighter-than-air element familiar to most of
us from party and weather balloons and first discovered on the
Sun. Questar`s Maximum-Resolution Solar Spectrometer is able to
sample visible light from every region of the sun's disk, including
the surrounding chromosphere, the sun's complex, transitional
atmosphere, from which the helium emission arises.
Questar's
revolutionary, Maximum-Resolution Solar Spectrometer is the only,
compact telescope accessory in the world capable of permitting
the Zeeman Effect, our only direct, visible proof for the existence
of sunspot magnetic fields, to be glimpsed in the spectra of the
very largest sunspots with a small telescope of sufficient focal
length, such as the Questar®
with friction
drive alt-azimuth controls.
It includes an AC powered synchronous clock drive motor and declination
clamp. The setting circle for Right Ascension and Declination
is fully functional. The RA circle is universal for northern and
southern hemispheres. The Standard stores in a carrying case that
has pockets for the included tabletop legs, extra eyepiece, solar
Filter and AC adapter cord, as well as a pocket for the optional
Powerguide Controller.
