William Herschel Telescope

WHT links are organised below under the following headings:

• Instruments
• Information for observers
• Schedules
• Quality control, operational statistics
• Other information

Other useful links:

• Astronomy page (observing conditions, applying for time, time allocations, freight, travel, ING facilities, astronomy staff)
• ING home page, ING newsletters, Public relations, Science-highlights, Staff list,
• La Palma
• Links to other observatories, catalogues, literature, lists of links etc.

• Overview of instruments available in 2001b
• Common-user instruments: AF2/WYFFOS, INGRID, INTEGRAL/WYFFOS, ISIS, NAOMI, Prime focus and aux-port imaging, UES, AO development,
• Home pages of private instruments: LDSS , LDSS / WYFFOS comparison, LIRIS (under development) PN spectrograph (under development), SAURON, SCAM (STJs), ULTRACAM
• Home pages of decommissioned instruments: FOS-2 TAURUS WHIRCAM
• CCDs, CCD orientations, CCD group web pages, Derotators, Filters, GHRIL
  
• Instrument manuals and technical notes, SIGNAL (exposure-time calculator)

• Observing recipe, Command glossary, Telescope-operator observing notes, Engineering checklist
• Fault database, Post-observing feedback
• ThAr line list,
• Astronomy s'ware support, Data archive, Computing-facilities group, Engineeering archive (local staff only), Library and virtual library

• 01B schedule, 01A schedule, 00B schedule, 00A schedule, 99B schedule, schedules web page (others)
• Short cut to old master schedule files: 94A, 94B, 95A, 95B, 96A 96B, 97A, 97B, 98A, 98B, 99A

• Mirror reflectivity, Optical aberrations, Light leaks
• Pointing and blind-offsetting, Tracking
• Time lost to technical problems, to bad weather and to observing overheads
• Half-yearly reports, Diary, Use of service and discretionary nights, Commissioning-time summary
• Oversubscription / publication statistics

• Description of telescope, Photo, Coordinates
• History of WHT, History of RGO

Chris Benn (crb@ing.iac.es)

2001 Aug 20 (original version 1998)