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Historical information:
Current common-user instruments and facilities:
Auxiliary-port CAMera (ACAM)
Intermediate dispersion Spectrograph and Imaging System (ISIS)
Ground-based High Resolution Laboratory (GHRIL)
Prime Focus Imaging Platform (PFIP)
Automated Fibre Positioner (AUTOFIB-2)
Wide-field Fibre Optic Spectrograph (WYFFOS)
Nasmyth Adaptive Optics for Multi-purpose Instrumentation (NAOMI+INGRID)
Optimized Stellar Coronograph for Adaptive optics (NAOMI+OSCA+INGRID)
GRound based Adaptive optics Controlled Environment (GRACE)
Optically Adaptive System for Imaging Spectroscopy (NAOMI+OASIS)
Long Slit Intermediate-Resolution InfraRed Spectrograph (LIRIS)
De-commissioned common-user instruments:
Cassegrain Acquisition and Guidance Unit, and Auxiliary Port Imaging Camera (AUX)
Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS-2)
Ground-layer Laser Adaptive optics System (GLAS)
Isaac Newton Group Red Imaging Device (INGRID)
INTEGRAL Spectrograph
Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph (LDSS-2)
Multi-Aperture Real Time Image Normalisation Instrument (MARTINI)
Taylor Atherton Uariable-resolution Radial Uelocity System (TAURUS-II)
Utrecht Echelle Spectrograph (UES)
William Herschel Infrared Camera (WHIRCAM)
Private instruments (de-commissioned or in use):
On-sky MOAO demonstrator (CANARY)
Stabilized speckle integral field spectroscopy demonstrator (SPIFS)
The Extreme Polarimeter (ExPo)
FastCam
Galaxy Halpha Fabry-Perot System (GHaFaS)
Pyramid wavefront sensor (PWS)
The Cambridge Infrared PAnoramic Survey Spectrograph (CIRPASS)
INTEGRAL Spectrograph
ULTRACAM, ultra-fast, triple-beam CCD camera
PLANETPOL
Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope (COAST)
SLOpe Detection And Ranging (SLODAR)
Planetary Nebulae Spectrograph (PN.S)
Spectrographic Areal Unit for Research on Optical Nebulae (SAURON)
Manchester Echelle Spectrograph (MES)
Hitch-Hiker Camera
FAST Fabry-Perot camera
Holographic High-Resolution Spectrograph (HHS)
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Camera (NAOJ Camera)
Enhanced Light Efficiency Cophasing Telescope Resolution Actuator (ELECTRA)
Cambridge Infra Red Survey Instrument (CIRSI)
Thousand Element Integral Field Unit (TEIFU)
Superconducting Tunnel Junction (STJ) Camera
TRIFFID Photometre
FLEX and HEXAFLEX
2D-FIS spectrograph
Optical Resonance Spectrometer
Arcetri Near-Infrared Camera (ARNICA)
Durham Imaging Polarimeter
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