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Instruments Available on Kitt Peak Telescopes...(1Sep93)
Spring 1994
(from KPNO, NOAO Newsletter No. 35, 1 September 1993)

This list summarizes the instruments that will be available on KPNO
telescopes for the February - July 1994 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)
    CryoCam (with new 800 x 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)
    Cryogenic Optical Bench (COB)
    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
    Cryogenic Optical Bench (COB)
    IR Imager (IRIM)
    IR Cryogenic Spectrometer (CRSP)

Coude Feed (C/F):
    Coude Spectrograph + (camera 5 or 6) + CCD (F3KB)

1.3-m Telescope:
    Simultaneous Quad Infrared Imaging Device (SQIID)
    Cryogenic Optical Bench (COB)
    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.
(2) Visitors must provide their own photographic plates.
(3) No long-term proposals.

George Jacoby

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