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Instruments Available on Kitt Peak Telescopes...(3/1/93)
Fall 1993
(from KPNO, NOAO Newsletter No. 33, 1 March 1993)

This list summarizes the instruments that will be available on KPNO
telescopes for the August 1993  January 1994 observing season.
Proposals for this period are due by the end of March. Two classes of
instruments exist: "Primary Instruments" for regular block scheduling
and "Reduced-Availability Instruments" that are only scheduled in
instances of very high scientific merit. Visitor equipment will be
scheduled only if it a) is unique, b) is required for a project of very
high scientific merit, c) conforms to block scheduling, and d) has
small impact on KPNO operational and engineering resources.

Primary Instruments:
4-m Telescope:
  R-C Spectrograph + CCD (T2KB)
  CryoCam (with new 800 ž 1200 Ford chip)
  Hydra fiber feed (blue or red cable) + Bench Spectrograph + CCD (T2KB)
  Echelle + (UVFast, Red Long, or Blue Long camera) + CCD (T2KB)
  PF Camera + direct CCD (T2KB)
  IR Cryogenic Spectrometer (CRSP)
  Simultaneous Quad Infrared Imaging Device (SQIID)
  IR Imager (IRIM)
  Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS)(3)

2.1-m Telescope:
  GoldCam (CCD Spectrometer)
  CCD Direct Imaging (T1KA)
  Fiber Optic Echelle (FOE) + CCD
  IR Imager (IRIM)
  IR Cryogenic Spectrometer (CRSP)

Coude‚ Feed (C/F):
  Coude‚ Spectrograph + (camera 5 or 6) + CCD (see article page 32)

1.3-m Telescope:
  Simultaneous Quad Infrared Imaging Device (SQIID)
  IR Cryogenic Spectrometer (CRSP)
  IR Imager (IRIM)

0.9-m Telescope:
  CCD Direct Imaging (T2KA)
  CCD Photometer (CCDPHOT)

Burrell Schmidt:
  Direct or objective-prism + CCD (S2KA)
  Direct or Objective-Prism + photographic plates(2)

Reduced-Availability Instruments:
  All Telescopes: Visitor Instruments
  4-m: Cassegrain CCD Imaging
  4-m: PF Camera + photographic plates(1),(2)
  2.1-m: White Spectrograph + photographic plates(2)
  1.3-m: Mark III (optical) Photometer + GaAs coldbox(3)

(1) Limited to programs that have already been started (see preceding article).
(2) Visitors must provide their own photographic plates (see preceding article).
(3) No long-term proposals (see preceding article).

David De Young

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