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Instruments Available on Kitt Peak Telescopes...(1Sep92)
Spring 1993
(from KPNO, NOAO Newsletter No. 31, 1 September 1992)

This list summarizes the instruments that will be available on KPNO
telescopes for the February 1993 - July 1993 observing season.
Proposals for this period are due by the end of September. 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 is nominal choice)
   CryoCam (after installation of an 800 x 1200 Ford chip anticipated
     this summer)
   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)
   PF Camera + photographic plates
   PF Camera + grism + photographic plates
   IR Cryogenic Spectrometer (CRSP)
   Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS)
   Simultaneous Quad Infrared Imaging Device (SQIID)
   IR Imager (IRIM)

2.1-m Telescope:
   GoldCam (CCD Spectrometer)
   CCD Direct Imaging (T1KA is nominal choice)
   Coude‚ Spectrograph + (camera 5 or 6) + CCD (normally used with C/F)
   Fiber Optic Echelle (FOE) + CCD (normally used with C/F)
   IR Imager (IRIM)
   IR Cryogenic Spectrometer (CRSP)

Coude‚ Feed (C/F):
   Coude‚ Spectrograph + (camera 5 or 6) + CCD
   Fiber Optic Echelle (FOE) + CCD

1.3-m Telescope:
   Mark III (Optical) Photometer + (1P21, S20, or GaAs Coldbox)
   Simultaneous Quad Infrared Imaging Device (SQIID)
   Otto (1-5 æm InSb IR photometer: JHKLM)
   Bolometer (2-20 æm Ge:Ga)
   IR Cryogenic Spectrometer (CRSP)
   IR Imager (IRIM)

0.9-m Telescope:
   CCD Direct Imaging (primarily T2KA; other chips block scheduled)
   White Spectrograph and GoldCam CCD Spectrometer (WhiteCam)
   Automated Filter Photometer (AFP2) + (1P21, S20, or GaAs Coldbox)
   CCD Photometer (CCDPHOT)

Burrell Schmidt:
   Direct or objective-prism + CCD (S2KA is nominal choice)
   Direct or objective-prism + photographic plates

Reduced-Availability Instruments:
   All Telescopes: Visitor Instruments
   4-m: Cassegrain CCD Imaging
   2.1-m: White Spectrograph + photographic plates
   0.9-m: Black Spectrograph + photographic plates

David De Young

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