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Past, Present and Future Instruments

Below is a summary of instruments available, to be available or recently decommisioned on the ING telescopes. For current available instruments please visit the ING instrumentation overview. Common-user instruments are those instruments supported by ING personnel, visitor instruments are those which are supported by other groups but which are regularly scheduled on ING telescopes. Future instruments refer to those instruments which are currently funded, either as common user or visitor instruments. Decommissioned instruments are instruments no longer available.

More information can be found in our historical archive of instrumentation: WHT, INT, JKT. More information on some of the listed instruments is indexed in the Manuals Home Page.

Future

WHT:
PAU. Prime focus imager.
WEAVE. Multi-object spectrograph.

Common User

WHT:
ACAM. A new wide-field Cassegrain imager and spectrograph.
AF2/WYFFOS. Fiber-optics multiobject spectrograph.
INGRID. AO near-infrared imaging camera.
ISIS. Low- and medium-resolution slit spectrograph.
LIRIS. Near-infrared imager and spectrograph.
NAOMI. AO feeder.
OASIS. AO areal lenslet spectrograph.
OSCA. AO coronagraph.
PFIP. Prime focus imager.

INT:
IDS. Low- and medium-resolution slit spectrograph.
WFC. Wide-field camera.

Visitor

WHT:
AOLI. Adaptive Optics Lucky Imager.
CANARY. Wide-field LGS tomography and open-loop AO (MOAO) demonstrator.
ExPo. Extreme Polarimeter.
FastCam. Very high-spatial resolution optical imager.
GHαFaS. Fabry-Perot Spectrometer.
IquEyE High speed photon-counting photometer.
INTEGRAL (formerly common-user). Areal fiber-optics spectrograph.
PLANETPOL. High-sensitivity polarimeter.
PNS. Double-arm slitless spectrograph.
SAURON. Areal lenslet spectrograph.
S-CAM. Imager based on superconductivity.
SPIFS. Stabilized speckle integral field spectroscopy demonstrator.
UltraCAM. Fast 3-colour imager.

Decommissioned

WHT:
GLAS. Laser guiding star system for use with NAOMI.
AUX. Imaging camera at Cassegrain focus.
LDSS2. Multi-mask spectrograph.
TAURUS. Fabry-Perot spectrograph.
UES. Echelle high-resolution spectrograph.

INT:
MUSICOS. Fiber-fed echelle high-resolution spectrograph.

JKT:
JKT CCD. Optical imager.




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Last modified: 27 May 2013