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Information on Small Telescopes Listed with NASTeC (1Mar93) (from KPNO, NOAO Newsletter No. 33, 1 March 1993) The Kitt Peak National Observatory has joined the North American Small Telescope Cooperative, founded by Jason Cardelli at the University of Wisconsin. The purpose of NASTeC is to inform the astronomical community of the distribution and availability of small-to-intermediate sized telescopes and associated instrumentation. NASTeC listings include locations and descriptions of telescopes, information about instruments and detectors, and a contact who can provide more information about each facility. KPNO has listed the 1.3-m, 0.9-m, Coude Feed, and Burrell Schmidt telescopes with NASTeC. With the continuing budget cuts at NOAO, we are forced to limit even further the range of instruments available on each of our telescopes. While we would prefer to retain the broadest range of capabilities for our telescopes, we must concentrate our increasingly scarce resources on the most used and most scientifically productive instruments. As noted elsewhere in this Newsletter, photography and photoelectric photometry will soon become generally unavailable on most Kitt Peak telescopes. Astronomers who use these techniques for their research may find alternate facilities through NASTeC. We note, however, that most other telescopes listed with NASTeC are not available for large programs, but as a source for limited amounts of data. We also encourage institutions not yet listed with NASTeC to consider joining the Cooperative. The North American Small Telescope Cooperative can be contacted through: Jason Cardelli Department of Astronomy University of Wisconsin 475 N. Charter St. Madison, Wisconsin 53706, or on INTERNET (cardelli@madraf.astro.wisc.edu) or SPAN (madraf::cardelli). David De Young, Caty Pilachowski
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