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General information
Introduction
El Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos
Weather and Observing Conditions
Weather and Climate
Observing conditions
Communications
Telephone and Telefax (La Palma)
Post
Electronic mail
Cambridge
Applying for Observing Time
Apportionment of telescope time
Applications for telescope time
Preparing an application
Service Observing Scheme
Preparation for Observing
Support Astronomers
Documentation
Newsletters and up-to-date information
Facilities at RGO
Travel
Visas
Which La Palma?
Air Travel between the UK and La Palma
Air Travel between the Netherlands and La Palma
Transportation on La Palma
Accommodation on site
Freight
Observing and after
Facilities on site
Observing protocol
Data ownership
The data archive
Publication of data
Telescopes, acquisition and guiding
The 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope (WHT)
General description
Summary of mechanical performance
Optics
Prime Focus Corrector
Telescope control
Planning observations
Positions, finding charts and offsets
Catalogues
System catalogues
Altazimuth problems
Acquisition and guiding
Overview
Cassegrain acquisition & guider Unit
Nasmyth acquisition and guider unit (UES side)
The Prime Focus A&G Unit
The 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope (INT)
General description
Summary of mechanical performance
Optics
Telescope control
Planning observations
Positions, finding charts and offsets
Catalogues
System Catalogues
Acquisition and guiding
Overview
Finder telescope
Cassegrain acquisition and guider Unit
Prime focus acquisition and guider unit
The 1.0-m Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope (JKT)
General description
Summary of mechanical performance
Optics
Telescope control
Planning observations
Acquisition and guiding
Overview
Finder telescope
Acquisition and guider unit for the f/15 Cassegrain focus (CCD)
Acquisition unit for the f/15 Cassegrain focus (non CCD)
Acquisition and guider unit for the f/8.06 focus
The Guide Star Server System at the ING Telescopes
Carlsberg Automatic Meridian Circle
Overview of instruments
The instrument package
Instrument control
Overview
INT and JKT
WHT
Imaging instruments
Introduction
CCD imaging
Overview
The JKT CCD Camera
INT prime focus unit
CCD imaging at the WHT
Imaging with TAURUS-2
Imaging at the Cassegrain Auxiliary port
Imaging with LDSS-2
Imaging at the WHT Prime Focus
Which system ?
Choice of Focal Station
Optical performance
Optical Distortion
Optical performance
WHT and INT Prime Focus
Signal to noise
Quantum Efficiency of the CCDs
Cosmetic effects and fringing
High-Resolution Imaging
Ground Based High Resolution Imaging Laboratory (GHRIL)
Optics
Imaging Polarimetery
Infrared Imaging
Spectroscopic instruments
Overview
Faint Object Spectrograph
FOS-1
FOS-2
Performance
Efficiency
Stability
Wavelength resolution and range
Calibration facilities
Operation
FOS-1
FOS-2
Data Reduction
FOS versus ISIS
The Richardson--Brealey Spectrograph (RBS)
Overview
Design
Performance
Resolution
Signal
Stability
Calibration facilities
Grisms on the JKT CCD camera
Intermediate Dispersion Spectrograph (IDS)
Overview
Design
Performance
Wavelength range and resolution.
Stability
Throughput
Performance of cross-dispersion option
Calibration facilities
ISIS
Overall layout
Polarisation optics
The slit area
Folds and Dichroics
Below Slit filters
Collimators
The ISIS gratings
Cameras
Cross-Dispersers
Throughput
Overall performance of the system
Stability and radial velocities
Scattered Light
Wood's Anomalies in the ISIS gratings
Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph - LDSS2
Overview
Design
Performance.
Efficiency
Wavelength Resolution and Range
Multi-object capability
Calibration Facilities
Utrecht Echelle Spectrograph (UES)
Overview
Design
Performance
Scale at the detector
Wavelength resolution
Wavelength coverage
Order separation
Throughput
Stability
Acquisition and guiding
Calibration facilities
Operation, data acquisition and reduction
TAURUS-2
Overview
Design
Performance
Field of view
Spatial resolution
Spectral resolution
Throughput
Specifying the configuration of TAURUS
Choice of etalon
The need for order-sorting filters
Choice of detectors
WHT Prime Focus Spectroscopy Facility
Description
Autofib-2
Fibre feeds
WYFFOS
Status (Nov. 1994)
Autofib-2
Fibres
WYFFOS
Expectations
Detectors
Introduction
Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs)
Overview
General description
Design
CCD systems on La Palma
Performance
Efficiency
Noise level
Saturation level and dynamic range
Charge transfer efficiency
Cosmetic defects
Image Photon Counting System (IPCS)
Overview
Design
Image size and pixel size
IPCS Performance
Efficiency
Noise
Saturation characteristics
Geometric distortion
Granularity
Which detector ?
General Signal and Noise considerations
A comparison between CCD and IPCS
Other considerations
Detector size
Real time data display
Time resolution
Saturation
Cosmic ray events
Cosmetic defects
Fringing
Geometric distortion
Instruments for photometry and polarimetry
Overview
Peoples' Photometer (PP)
Instruments not supported by ING staff
General Comments
Principal Contacts
Photographic Imaging
The ISIS Fibre System
Guiding system.
Aperture plates
Observing coordinate determination.
Fibre System Performance
Manchester Echelle Spectrograph (MES)
Overview
Design
Operation
Multi-Purpose Fotometer (MPF)
Users' own instruments
General Comments
Optics
WHT f/2.8 corrected prime focus
WHT f/11 Cassegrain focus
WHT f/11 Nasmyth focus direct
WHT f/11 Nasmyth focus with optical image derotator
WHT f/11 Nasmyth focus with infrared image derotator
INT f/3.3 prime focus
INT f/15 Cassegrain focus
JKT f/15 Cassegrain focus
JKT f/8.06 wide field Cassegrain focus
Mechanical Mounting
WHT f/2.8 corrected prime focus
WHT f/11 Cassegrain focus
WHT f/11 Nasmyth focus
WHT GHRIL Laboratory
INT f/3.3 prime focus
INT f/15 Cassegrain focus
JKT f/15 & f/8.06 Cassegrain foci
Acquisition and guidance
Electrical and electronic
Cooling, cryogenics, vacuum, gas supplies
Detectors
Documentation
User manuals
Technical notes
Scheduling aids
Instrumental throughput
Empirical throughputs
Spectroscopy
Imaging
Comparison between theoretical and empirical throughput
SIGNAL
Theoretical throughputs
Atmospheric extinction
FILTERS
Imaging filters
Broad band filters - the Kitt Peak Interference Filters (BVRI)
Broad band filters - The RGO Glass Broad Band Filters (UBVRIZ)
Broadband filters - the Harris set
Narrow band filters
Specification of the narrow band filters
General Remarks
Calculating of Focus Offsets
Calculation of Central Wavelength
Change due to uncollimated light
Change due to temperature
125 mm diameter filters for WHT prime focus
Special Purpose Filters
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