StellarNet, Inc. News and Press Releases
News and Updates for 2026
Pro-Tips to Keep your StellarNet Spectrometer Healthy in 2020!
StellarNet has been manufacturing rugged spectrometers to the worldwide market for over 25 years. We have had countless questions from customers just like you who want to keep their instruments in tip-top shape. Here are some insider tips for making sure your...
University Customer Spotlight: Monitoring Your Indoor Chemical Exposure
In January 2020, we spoke with Chen Wang about her recent publication, “The atmospheric chemistry of indoor environments”; Q&A is a combination of interview and paper info.Why should we care about the atmosphere in indoor environments? Humans increasingly spend...
University Customer Spotlight: Creating White Light using Rare-earth Doped Glass
The sun’s light shines down upon the earth, but if you are inside, it’s difficult to replicate the sun’s color using current residential lighting technologies. Almost 20% of the electricity used at home is from lighting. There is an ongoing global effort to design...
A Spectroscopy Feast- A Thanksgiving Helping of Spectroscopy for Food Quality Applications
Here in the United States, it’s almost Thanksgiving! It’s a time to give thanks and at StellarNet we’re thankful for our customers! So, until the end of the year, we’re offering a “Buy a NIR spectrometer, get the visible channel FREE special". This App Note provides a...
Software Developer’s Spotlight- “Inside the Mind of a Programmer”
Dr. Friedrich Menges is the programmer behind StellarNet's Spectroscopy Pro-Tools (SPT) Software package. This software is a "must have" for customers wanting a next level software to control their spectrometer and display their spectral data. SPT enables users to...
Holiday Beer Testing – SRM, EMC, & Lovibond: What’s your color?
For this week’s Feasibility Friday, David and Jason are testing the SRM, EBC, and Lovibond colors of beer from a local brewery. David has chosen some classic styles with published SRM values to compare to. These three color scales are popular in the beer...
Special Halloween Application Note: Ghostbusting with Spectroscopy
If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? StellarNet! Ghostbusters is always a favorite this time of year and so is watching those spooky ghost hunter reality shows. Don't you wonder if that weird glow in the lab is actually a...
End of Summer Spectrometer Publications from StellarNet Customers
Welcome back to school. To inspire you for the next year of research and teaching, here are some Stellar publications from this summer: VISION OF RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS Researchers from Purdue University in conjunction with the USDA published a...
StellarNet Customer Spotlight – Optics Research Professor uses Educational Spectrometers to teach “Sights and Sounds”
Dr. Dan Boye of Davidson College has purchased several of StellarNet’s educational spectrometer systems. “We’re applying them in one class in particular for non-science majors,” he said. This class is called “Sights and Sounds, and it looks at...
Application Note – The Raman Spectrum of Water
Water is arguably the most important chemical compound on our planet. As such, a great deal of scientific research has gone into understanding the structure and dynamics of water as it relates to the biochemical processes in our bodies, environmental science, and even...