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Instruments Available on KPNO Telescopes (1Mar94)
(from KPNO, NOAO Newsletter No. 37, 1 March 1994)

This list summarizes the instruments that will be available on KPNO
telescopes for the September 1994-January 1995 observing season.  Two
classes of instruments exists: "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:       PF Camera + direct CCD (T2KB)
                     Echelle + (UVFast, Red Long, or Blue Long camera) + CCD
			(T2KB)
                     R-C Spec + CCD (T2KB)
                     CryoCam (with new 800 x 1200 Loral Chip)
                     IR Cryogenic Spectrometer (CRSP)
                     Cryogenic Optical Bench (COB) [Nov-Jan only]
                     Simultaneous Quad Infrared Imaging Device (SQIID)
                     IR Imager (IRIM)
                     Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) [Note 1]

2.1-m Telescope:     GoldCam (CCD spectrometer with dedicated 1K x 3K Loral
			Chip)
                     CCD Direct Camera (T1KA)
                     Cryogenic Optical Bench (COB) [Nov-Jan only]
                     Fiber Optical Echelle (FOE)+ CCD (T1KA or TI5)
                     IR Imager (IRIM)
                     IR Cryogenic Spectrometer (CRSP)

Coude Feed:          Coude Spectrograph + (camera 5 or 6) + CCD (T1KA, TI5,
			or T2KB)

1.3-m Telescope:     Simultaneous Quad Infrared Imaging Device (SQIID)
                     Cryogenic Optical Bench (COB) [Nov-Jan only]
                     IR Cryogenic Spectrometer (CRSP)
                     IR Imager (IRIM)

0.9-m Telescope:     CCD Direct Camera + CCD (T2KA)
                     CCD Photometer (CCDPHOT) (T5HA)

Burrell Schmidt:     Direct or objective-prism + CCD (S2KA)
                     Direct or objective-prism + photograph plates [Note 2]

                      Reduced-Availability Instruments

All Telescopes: Visitor Instruments
4-m: PF Camera + photograph plates [Note 2,3]
2.1-m: White Spectrograph + photograph plates [Note 2]
1.3-m: Mark III (optical) Photometer + GaAs coldbox [Note 1,3]

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

Caty Pilachowski

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