ING Annual Report 2000-2001 : Appendix B. Telescope Instrumentation
ING Banner
Home > Public Information > ING Annual Reports > 2000/2001 > Appendix B


ING Annual Report 2000-2001
Previous: Appendix A. The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes | Up: Table of Contents | Next: Appendix C. Staff Organisation

Other available formats: PDF

Appendix B
Telescope Instrumentation

The INT and JKT are equipped with a restricted set of instruments that match the capabilities of the telescopes whilst satisfying the requirements of a large percentage of users. The number of instrument changes on these telescopes is kept to a minimum in order to reduce costs and increase reliability. The design of the WHT allows much greater flexibility, since it is straightforward to switch between the Cassegrain and the two Nasmyth focal stations, and a much greater variety of instruments may be left on the telescope. A broad functional division between the WHT, INT and JKT is as follows:

William Herschel Telescope Spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry over a wide range of resolving powers

Multi-object spectroscopy

Areal spectroscopy

CCD and infrared imaging

High-resolution imaging and other projects in a laboratory environment
Isaac Newton Telescope Intermediate- and low-dispersion spectroscopy

CCD imaging
Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope CCD imaging

The following table summarises the common-user instruments which were available during 2000 and 2001.

Focus Instrument
Detector




William Herschel Telescope






Cassegrain ISIS double spectrograph    
Tektronix and EEV CCDs

Acquisition and Guidance Unit Auxiliary Port Camera
Tektronix CCD

Isaac Newton Group Red Imaging Device (INGRID)
Rockwell HgCdTl array

Ground Based High Resolution Imaging Laboratory (GHRIL)
Tektronix and EEV CCDs

Utrecht Echelle Spectrograph (UES)
SITe CCD

INTEGRAL spectrograph

Tektronix CCD (WYFFOS at GHRIL)

Prime Focus Camera (PFC)
2 × EEV CCD

Autofib Fibre Positioner (AUTOFIB-2)
Tektronix CCD (WYFFOS at GHRIL)




Isaac Newton Telescope






Cassegrain
 Intermediate Dispersion Spectrograph (IDS)
Tektronix and EEV CCDs
Prime Wide Field Camera (WFC)
4 × EEV CCDs




Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope






Cassegrain CCD camera
SITe CCD

Previous: Appendix A. The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes | Up: Table of Contents | Next: Appendix C. Staff Organisation
© Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes