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Instruments

Historical information:

Current common-user instruments and facilities:

De-commissioned common-user instruments:

Private instruments (de-commissioned or in use):

On-sky MOAO demonstrator (CANARY)

Stabilized speckle integral field spectroscopy demonstrator (SPIFS)

The Extreme Polarimeter (ExPo)

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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Last modified: 22 April 2012