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Thank you for the warm welcome Gordon :)

I am an undergraduate freshman research student, and I recently got my hands on a Shelyak LISA spectrometer instrument, kudos to my awesome professor. It's only being worked on by me for the time being, so it feels unsurmountable at times! My goal is to eventually get it up to working speed and with a proper SOP so I can take it to the university's observatory and attach it to the telescope. I personally am interested in Solar Flares, but we would have extragalactic capabilities if it all goes well. But I can't do it myself, so, any help would be greatly appreciated! I will post a detailed question post soon, but I am not sure how to insert pictures here. All I can get is Image. Do I need to use the "Attachments" at the bottom of this page? I have screenshots with what each of my .fit files looks like in the Demetra Buckets. I use Artemis to capture the spectrographs. My instrument has an argon-neon calibration lamp, and a unique power supplier as Shelyak is a French maker, so it doesn't directly connect to my American outlet. I can post the specifications on my question post, and if y'all can think of anything else important, that'd be great.

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Welcome to TSS Velial!
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Wow, Congradulations!

I look forward to reading more indeed.
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Welcome to TSS Velial, thanks for joining us!
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Welcome aboard! What university in Virginia?

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Hi Velial, and welcome here to the Forum!

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Hi Velial,

Welcome to TSS. Sounds like an interesting project.
I will post a detailed question post soon, but I am not sure how to insert pictures here. All I can get is Image. Do I need to use the "Attachments" at the bottom of this page?
To post images, yes, use the attachments tab.
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Then click add files to open the file explorer (PC) or Finder (mac). Select one or more files.
This is me adding the screenshot of the attachments tab.
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The files will then appear in the attachments tab.
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If you do nothing, the files will appear as attachments at the bottom. You can use the place inline button to insert in the text body. Click the cursor in the text where you want the image and then click place in line. The forum software will generate the BBCode to insert the image.

Your first five posts are queued for approval by mods, then you can post directly.

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Hello and welcome to TSS. Glad you joined us.

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Hello front Ohio. I may be doing some observing in the Blue Ridge sometime this year.
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