Durham Imaging Polarimeter

First light: 1989.

Last commissioning:

Designed and built by: University of Durham.

Description: The Durham Imaging Polarimeter was mounted on the f/11 Cassegrain focus at the WHT and the f/15 Cassegrain focus on the INT.

Some scientific highlights:

• Polarisation of high redshift radio galaxies (1989)

More information: S M Scarrott et al., 1983, "Electronographic polarimetry: the Durham polarimeter", MNRAS, 204, 1163.

More photos of this instrument: http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/archive/wht/instruments.html