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La Palma Technical Notes

No 132 Electron-multiplying CCDs for astronomical spectroscopy
Simon Tulloch
October 2010
tn132.pdf
No 131 Conversion of ING Cameras to SDSU Generation 3 Controllers
Simon Tulloch (Isaac Newton Group)
March 2006
tn131.pdf
No 130 Investigation of Low Fringing Detectors on the ISIS Spectrograph
Simon Tulloch (Isaac Newton Group)
June 2005
tn130.pdf
No 129 ING Bibliography 2000-2001
Danny Lennon (Isaac Newton Group)
Currie Trundle (Isaac Newton Group and Queen University Belfast)
Javier Méndez (Isaac Newton Group)
Sheily Wright (Isaac Newton Group)
September 2003
tn129.pdf
No 128 Investigation into L3 CCD Performance
Simon Tulloch (Isaac Newton Group)
September 2003
tn128.pdf
No 127 The Definition of Dark, Grey and Bright Time at ING
I. Skillen (Isaac Newton Group)
February 2002
tn127.ps.gz
No 126 Maps of the standard arc-lamps for the WHT ISIS-RED Arm
Joanna Holt (ING, Univ. of Sheffield)
Begoña García Lorenzo (ING)
September 2001
tn126.pdf (entire document)
tn126.ps.gz
tn126_R158R.ps.gz
tn126_R316R.ps.gz
tn126_R600R.ps.gz
tn126_R1200R_CUAR.ps.gz
tn126_R1200R_CUNE.ps.gz
tn126_R1200R_CUNEAR.ps.gz
No 125 Maps of the standard arc-lamps for the WHT ISIS-Blue Arm
Begoña García Lorenzo (ING)
Joanna Holt (ING, Univ. of Sheffield)
September 2001
tn125.pdf tn125.ps.gz
No 124 ING Bibliography and publication rates (1999)
S.F.Sánchez (ING)
January 2000
tn124.ps.gz
tn124.pdf
HTML
No 123 Wavelength Dependent Pixel-to-Pixel Response Variations of a Typical EEV42-80 CCD: the role of flat-fielding astronomical data
F Crompvoets (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen)
S Smartt (ING)
August 1999
tn123.ps.gz
No 122 Star Pairs for Blind Offset Check
R Laing (Univ of Oxford and RAL)
J Sinclair (RGO)
June 1999
tn122.pdf
tn122.ps.gz
No 121 ING Bibliography and Publication Rate (1998)
J Sinclair (RGO)
May 1999
tn121.ps.gz
No 120 CCD Camera EEV#13
S Tulloch (ATC)
February 1999
tn120.html
tn120.pdf tn120.pdf.gz
tn120.ps.gz
No 119 The 2 chip EEV mosaic
S Tulloch (ATC)
November 1998
tn119.htm
tn119.pdf
No 118 The measurement of spatial resolution in EEV4280 CCD images
S Tulloch (RGO)
July 1998
tn118.pdf
No 117 CCD Camera EEV #12
S Tulloch (RGO)
June 1998
tn117.pdf
tn117.ps.gz
No 116 Atlas of Thorium Argon lines and the Solar spectrum obtained with the ESA-MUSICOS spectrograph at the Isaac Newton Telescope
John Telting (Isaac Newton Group), and Joana Oliveira and Bernard Foing (ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands)
June 1998
tn116.ps.gz
No 115 La Palma night-sky brightness
Chris Benn (Isaac Newton Group) and Sara Ellison (Univ. of Kent)
May 1998
HTML
PS
No 114 CMC faint pointing grid available at the ING
J E Sinclair (RGO)
March 1998
tn114.ps.gz
No 113 Infrared standard star lists available at the ING
J E Sinclair (RGO)
March 1998
tn113.pdf
tn113_intro.ps.gz
tn113-tab1a.ps.gz
tn113-tab1b.ps.gz
tn113-tab1c.ps.gz
tn113-tab2.ps.gz
Erratum: Table II, 5th column header is wrong. It should be read K instead of J.
No 112 ING bibliography and publication rate (1997)
W L Martin and J E Sinclair (RGO)
February 1998
tn112.ps.gz
No 111 Design and use of a light source for linearity measurement in CCD-cameras
S Tulloch
1997 August
tn111.pdf
tn111.ps.gz
No 110 The design and use of the RGO flatness scanner
S Tulloch
July 1997
tn110.pdf
tn110.ps.gz
No 109 ING bibliography and publication rate (1996)
W L Martin and J E Sinclair (RGO)
February 1997
tn109.pdf
No 108 Design and use of a novel flat field illumination light source
Simon Tulloch (RGO)
November 1996
tn108.pdf
tn108.ps.gz
No 107 Design and use of LED light sources for QE calibration
Simon Tulloch (RGO)
November 1996
tn107.pdf
tn107.ps.gz
No 106 New CCD readout mode (LSD mode) with absolute time stamping
Derek Ives, Tony Bennett (RGO) and Frank Gribbin (LPO)
July 1996
tn106.pdf
tn106.ps.gz
No 105 (Awaiting publication)
No 104 Baking the Loral CCD and cryostat to remove water vapour
A P Oates (RGO)
July 1996
tn104.pdf
tn104.ps.gz
No 103 Response enhancements for the Loral CCDs using UV flooding
A P Oates (RGO)
July 1996
tn103.pdf
tn103.ps.gz
No 102 Achieving light-tightness at the INT prime focus camera
Marc Balcells (Groningen)
March 1996
tn102.ps.gz
No 101 ING bibliography and publication rate (1995)
W L Martin and J E Sinclair (RGO)
March 1996
tn101.pdf
No 100 Spectrophotometric standards - II
Janet Sinclair (RGO)
January 1996
tn100.ps.gz
tn100-tab.ps.gz
Note: See also No 65.
No 99 Effects contributing to dark currents in Loral and Tek CCDs
Simon Tulloch (RGO)
November 1995
tn099.pdf
tn099.ps.gz
No 98 More maps of wavelength calibration lamps for WHT ISIS
Janet Sinclair (RGO)
August 1995
Note: See also No 84.
No 97 ING bibliography and publication rate (1994)
W L Martin (RGO)
May 1995
tn097.pdf
No 96 Update on filter characteristics for the ING telescopes
R F Peletier (LPO)
November 1994
tn096.pdf (excluding transmission curves)
No 95 Landolt faint photometric standards
J Pilkington, J Sinclair, R Wood (RGO)
July 1994
tn095_tab.ps.gz (Gzipped PS version of large table)
No 94 ING bibliography (1993)
W L Martin (RGO)
March 1994
tn094.pdf
No 93 ING CCDs - properties of operational cameras
P R Jorden (RGO)
January 1994
tn093.pdf
tn093.ps.gz
Note:See also ING detector page for latest information on CCDs in use at ING.
No 92 New large-format CCDs for the ING
A P Oates, P R Jorden (RGO)
November 1993
Note:See also ING detector page for latest information on CCDs in use at ING.
No 91 UES spectrum of thorium-argon hollow-cathode lamp (31.6 g/mm)
K Lipman, M Pettini, M Wall, N Walton (RGO)
November 1993
No 90 Transmission curves for more WHT interference filters
P Terry, S W Unger, J E Sinclair (RGO)
July 1993
Note: superseded by No 96.
No 89 ING bibliography (1992)
W L Martin (RGO)
March 1993
tn089.pdf
No 88 Direct measurements of the throughput of the WHT's ISIS spectrograph
C R Jenkins, P Terry
July 1992
tn088.pdf
No 87 Throughput of the WHT's ISIS spectrograph
C R Jenkins, J E Sinclair, R E S Clegg
July 1992
tn087.pdf
No 86 Beta-light sources for CCD response calibrations
P R Jordan, P Terry, A P Oates
July 1992
No 85 Standard star lists available at the ING (La Palma)
Janet Sinclair, Robert Laing and Roger Wood
July 1992
tn085_tab3.ps.gz (gzipped PS version of table 3, bright Landolt standards)
No 84 Maps of the standard arc-lamps for the WHT ISIS
Janet Sinclair (RGO)
July 1992
tn084.pdf
Note: See also No 98.
No 83 ING bibliography (1991)
W L Martin
1992 March
tn083.pdf
No 82 The night sky spectrum from La Palma
Charles Jenkins and Steve Unger (RGO)
October 1991
Note: Superseded by No 115.
No 81 GHRIL User notes
M N Devaney
August 1991
tn081.pdf Figures scanned from poor original
No 80 ING bibliography (1990)
W L Martin
1991 April
tn080.pdf
No 79 CCD frame-size parameters (Version 1.0)
P R Jorden (RGO)
December 1990
Note: superseded by No 93.
No 78 An analysis of the papers published from observations from the ING of telescopes on La Palma up to 1989
W L Martin
1990 November
No 77 ING bibliography (1989)
K P Tritton
1990 June
tn077.pdf
No 76 Wood's anomalies in the INT spectrograph
P G Murdin (RGO)
14 March 1990
tn076.pdf
No 75 Transmission curves for WHT interference filters
S W Unger, J E Sinclair, D Jackson, P Eldridge (RGO)
20 February 1990
Note: superseded by No 96.
No 74 Red-sensitive photon counters - a market survey
P Terry, J Dick, S Unger
1990 January
No 73 The WHT Harris BVR glass colour filter set
P Eldridge, D Jackson, J E Sinclair, S W Unger (RGO)
4 January 1990
Note: superseded by No 96.
No 72 Intensifier tests
Dick and P Terry
1989 December
No 71 Rising and setting times for observations with an alt-azimuth telescope
R A Laing (RGO)
November 1989
tn071.ps.gz With updates from 1991
No 70 A spectral atlas of calibration lamps in use with the ING IDS
E J Zuiderwijk (LPUU,RGO and Groningen) J Knapen (Groningen)
October 1989
tn070_1.pdf Introduction, Table 1, Figure 1, Cu-Ar high
tn070_2.pdf Table 2, Figure 2, Cu-Ar 400 l/mm
tn070_3.pdf Table 3, Figure 3, Cu-Ar 150 l/mm
tn070_4.pdf Table 4, Figure 4, Cu-Ne high
tn070_5.pdf Table 5, Figure 5, Cu-Ne low
tn070_6.pdf Table 6, Figure 6, Cu-He
tn070_7.pdf Table 7, Figure 7, Th-Ar
tn070_8.pdf Table 8, Figure 8, Al/Ca/Mg - Neon
Note: Scanned from poor original
No 69 La Palma data archive primer
E J Zuiderwijk (LPUU,RGO and Groningen)
June 1989
No 68 Pattern noise of the INT IPCS
E J Zuiderwijk
1989 May
No 67 An analysis of the papers published from observations from the ING of telescopes on La Palma from 1984-1988
W L Martin
1989 June
No 66 ING bibliography (1988)
K P Tritton
1989 May
tn066.pdf
No 65 Spectrophotometric standards
J E Sinclair (RGO) R Wood (RGO)
November 1989
Note: See also No 100.
No 64 Accurate calibration of field distortion of the JKT
J E Sinclair
January 1989
tn064.pdf
No 63 CCD detector performance monitoring and diagnostics
P R Jorden
December 1988
Note:See ING detector page for latest information on CCDs in use at ING.
No 62 ING bibliography (1984-1987)
K P Tritton
1988 December
tn062.pdf
No 61 Errors in interpolative centroiding: their cause and cure
J S B Dick, C R Jenkins, J Ziabicki
1988 September
No 60 The INT's image photon counting system - appraisal of operational serviceability
J S B Dick
1988 August
No 59 IPCS saturation: variation with image structure
T Marsh
1988 June
No 58 The alignment of the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope optics
R E Wallis
May 1988
tn058.ps.gz
No 57 CCD-data reduction
J E Sinclair
May 1988
Describes the corrections that should be applied for CCD photometry and the programmes available at RGO.
No 56 Acquisition & guider unit for the Cassegrain focus of the 4.2m William Herschell Telescope
P A Ellis
January 1988
tn056.pdf
No 55 Basic parameters of CCDs in use at La Palma [Version 3]
P R Jorden
Basic properties of the GEC and RCA CCDs, in use at LPO, are given. Parameters relevant to their use on different telescopes are tabulated.
January 1988
Note: superseded by No 93.
No 54 Scheduling the ING of telescopes with reference to service and override programmes
W L Martin
January 1988
No 53 ING user documentation - a guide [Version 2]
W L Martin
1987 November
No 52 Arc maps for copper-argon lamp on the INT spectrograph
D Harmer
September 1983
Cu-Ar arc maps for the IDS on the INT are given for the IPCS+500, IPCS+235 and CCD+235 Cameras with various gratings and angles.
Note: superseded by No 70.
No 51 MPF now in full operation on the JKT: should one choose MPF of PP?
J Tinbergen
1987 August
No 50 Library facilities at the Roque the Los Muchachos observatory [Version 2]
R W Argyle
1987 September
No 49 The La Palma archive
D E Hobden
1987 June
No 48 WHT interim Cassegrain acquisition and guiding unit
P Ellis
1987 April
No 47 Statisctical results from INT observations catalogue 1984-86
C R Benn, R Martin
4 February 1987
The analysis relates to 491 nights of observations made at the INT during the period 22 may 1984 to 15 March 1986.
No 46 Timing errors for the imaging CCD cameras on the INT and JKT
R A Laing
1987 January
No 45 Filter and chip spectral-response curves for La Palma
C Benn, D Cooper
20 January 1987
Spectral response curves for RCA and GEC chips, KPNO BVRI and UBVRIZ filters are given.
Note: superseded by No 96.
No 44 William Herschell Telescope - control system overview
L Jones
1986 December
No 43 Structured observing with the WHT
C R Jenkins and R A Laing
1986 June
No 42 A control system for the William Herschell Telescope
R Laing
1986 May
No 41 Geology and meteorology of Sahara dust
Paul Murdin
25 April 86
As relevant to La Palma.
tn041.pdf
No 40 Using the JKT CCD camera
P R Jorden
1986 February
No 39 Telescope control software: global variables and configuration files
R Laing and R Wood
1986 February
No 38 CCD data and FITS
J V Wall and W F Lupton
1985 December
No 37 CCD filters for use on La Palma [Version 2]
P Jorden
February 1988
The specifications and profiles for 24 narrow and broad band filters to be used with the CCD on La Palma are given.
Note: superseded by No 96.
No 36 Th-A hollow-cathode lamp
M Pettini
1985 December
No 35 Spectrum of the copper-neon lamp on the IDS
D L Harmer and R Collyns
28 November 1985
Plots of the spectrum cover the wavelength region 320 to 970 nm, from IPCS and CCD data taken on the INT.
Note: superseded by No 70.
No 34 Blemishes in IPCS flat-fields
A R Jorden
1985 October
No 33 Use of LPINFO on the VAX 11/780
D E Hobden
1985 September
No 32 Pointing of the INT and JKT
R Laing
1985 August
tn032.pdf
No 31 Atmospheric extinction at the Roque de Los Muchachos observatory, La Palma
D L King
6 September 1985
tn031.pdf
Wavelength dependence of atmospheric extinction is in process of being measured. A theoretical extinction curve is given, appropriate to the altitude and covering the spectral range 3000-11000A.
No 30 Modifications to FITS tape format to support the La Palma archive
W Lupton
1985 June
No 29 CCD cryostat use
Paul Jorden
1985 June 13
tn029.pdf
Describes method of liquid nitrogen filling and temperature monitoring
No 28 Hour angle limits of the JKT
Derek Jones
1985 May 20
tn028.pdf
Note: The tables in this document show the limiting hour-angles E and W (as function of declination) based on actual observations, and are different from the tables in the original (1985) version of TN028 which were based on design drawings of the telescope
No 27 IPCS - scanning system to reduce granularity
A R Jorden
1985 April
No 26 Focussing the INT
R L Poole
1985 March
No 25 IPCS - selecting the correct spatial (X) resolution
A R Jorden
1985 March
No 24 Software news
L Bell
1985 March
No 23 Optical coating facility at the Royal Greenwich Observatory
David Jackson
1985 February 2
Describes the optical coater available in the Vacuum Physics Dept of the RGO. Coatings available include Silver, Aluminium and Anti-reflection
No 22 New filters for the A & G unit of the INT on La Palma
D Harmer, P Ellis, L Bell
1985 January
tn022.pdf
No 21 Commisioning results for the St. Andrews spectrograph (july 1984)
David Stickland
1984 October 4
Describes results of an eight night commissioning run in early July 1984 of the Richardson-Brearley Spectrograph on the JKT on La Palma
No 20 Utility network for the 4.2 metre William Herschell Telescope. Protocol architecture
M R Johnson
1985 November
No 19 Utility network for the 4.2 metre William Herschell Telescope. Feasibility study. 4ms system: network interface to ethernet
M R Johnson
1984 February
No 18 Utility network for the 4.2 metre William Herschell Telescope. Choice of local area network
M R Johnson
1984 February
No 17 Changes made to the Cassegrain cluster software (2-30 nov 1984)
W Lupton and P Taylor
1984 December
No 16 Current status and future policy of the location and distribution of documentation associated with the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes on La Palma
B Martin
1984 November
No 15 Changes made the Cassegrain cluster software (15 sep-3 oct 1984)
W F Lupton
1984 November
No 14 Recent changes to the INT control system, policy for future software releases and a plan for the next six months
R Laing
1984 October
No 13 The use of CCD time on the night of 30-8-84 on the INT
T Snijders
1984 September
No 12 IPCS saturation
C Jenkins
1984 September
No 11 RGO/La Palma technical manuals
G Marding
1984 September
No 10 Typical count rates and extinction coefficients with the People's Photometer
D Jones
1984 September
No 9 General optical description of the 4.2m William Herschell Telescope
Richard Bingham
1984 September 7
tn009.pdf
tn009.doc (Word 6)
No 8 Safety of the IPCS on the INT on La Palma
C R Jenkins
1984 September
No 7 Telescope and instrument logbooks; fault reporting procedures
K P Tritton
1984 August
No 6 Support astronomy - observing run july 13-17, 1984
J V Wall
1984 August
No 5 Seeing at the INT and CATC: first month
Paul Murdin and Chris Thoburn
1984 July
Seeing measurements from the INT and CATC during June and July 1984.
No 4 First results with the Cassegrain cluster on the INT
M Pettini and R Ellis
1984 July
No 3 The NFRA series of notes re La Palma archive
W L Martin and D E Hobden
1985 December
No 2 Cleaning of optical components
J R Powell and D M Jackson
1984 June
tn002.pdf
No 1 UK optical telescopes on La Palma
R A E Fosbury and W L Martin
1984 May

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