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Past, Present and Future Instruments.

Below is a summary of instruments available, to be available or recently decommisioned on the ING telescopes. For current available instruments please visit the ING instrumentation overview. Common-user instruments are those instruments supported by ING personnel, visitor instruments are those which are supported by other groups but which are regularly scheduled on ING telescopes. Future instruments refer to those instruments which are currently funded, either as common user or visitor instruments. Decommissioned instruments are instruments no longer available. More information can be found in our historical archive of instrumentation: WHT, INT, JKT. More information on some of the listed instruments is indexed in the Manuals Home Page.

Common User

WHT:
ACAM. A new wide-field Cassegrain imager and spectrograph.
AF2/WYFFOS. Fiber-optics multiobject spectrograph.
INGRID. AO near-infrared imaging camera.
ISIS. Low- and medium-resolution slit spectrograph.
GLAS. Laser guiding star system for use with NAOMI.
LIRIS. Near-infrared imager and spectrograph.
NAOMI. AO feeder.
OASIS. AO areal lenslet spectrograph.
OSCA. AO coronagraph.
PFIP. Prime focus imager.

INT:
IDS. Low- and medium-resolution slit spectrograph.
WFC. Wide-field camera.

Visitor

WHT:
ExPo. Extreme Polarimeter.
FastCam. Very high-spatial resolution optical imager.
GHαFaS. Fabry-Perot Spectrometer.
INTEGRAL (formerly common-user). Areal fiber-optics spectrograph.
PLANETPOL. High-sensitivity polarimeter.
PNS. Double-arm slitless spectrograph.
SAURON. Areal lenslet spectrograph.
S-CAM. Imager based on superconductivity.
UltraCAM. Fast 3-colour imager.

Future

WHT:
HARPS-NEF. High-precision spectrograph for habitable Earth-like planetary search.

Decommissioned

WHT:
AUX. Imaging camera at Cassegrain focus.
LDSS2. Multi-mask spectrograph.
TAURUS. Fabry-Perot spectrograph.
UES. Echelle high-resolution spectrograph.

INT:
MUSICOS. Fiber-fed echelle high-resolution spectrograph.

JKT:
JKT CCD. Optical imager.




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