Apogee Imaging Systems - KestrelSpec software

KestrelSpec for Windows is designed for data acquisition and analysis using a CCD camera, a spectrograph and a computer running Microsoft Windows®. The software has versatile image acquisition, graphing and data analysis options to provide complete integrated control for supported CCD cameras and spectrographs.

Supported camera manufacturers include:

• Apogee Instruments


• Santa Barbara Instrument Group


• Andor Technology


• Princeton Instruments

Key Benefits of the software:

• Completely integrated camera and spectrograph control for supported instruments.


• "Join Curves" joins spectral with overlapping wavelength coverage into a single linearized spectrum for scanning spectrographs.


• Spectral calibration using a polynomial least squares or spline interpolation fit for fixed-grating spectrographs, "1-point"


• KestrelCal for scanning spectrographs, or "2-point" KestrelCal for echelle-type spectrographs.


• Real-time spectral peak finder determines the centroid and width.


• "Renormalize X axis" accurately linearizes spectra for all types of spectrographs.

KestrelSpec comes in two versions:

• The Lite version has basic camera and spectrograph controls, spectral calibration and spectral acquisition and display.


• The Full version has all the Lite capabilities plus additional analysis and data processing features.